Bulletins of
The Psychic Geographical Society
Modern art is philosophy made visible, and provides a psychic map of our world.
The essays under the heading "art" would be the place to start, since they're far more easy and fun than the ones under philosophy — they have "pictures and conversations" as it were. But the philosophy essays are written in a fairly accessible style as well. I don't write as demandingly as Kant or as obscurely as Hegel. I have made the writing as transparent as the subject matter would permit.
In the Art section, the only artist who is fully examined so far is Kandinsky. Though this was the right place to start, abstract painting is now quaint. I am presently working on Duchamp, who anticipates all of conceptual and performance art. The Duchamp study will put me in a position to speak with authority about what is happening now. As I proceed, the art essays will be briefer and faster, since the most serious work will already have been done in studying the founders
On my list for the
future are the Pop artists, especially Rosenquist. Beyond this, it's a simple
matter of running through the pantheon: Mondrian, Malevich, Cornell, Motherwell,
Matthew Barney, &c. Anyone who keeps coming back to buy my brand of
philosophical gas will collect the set.
The essays below
are in an ongoing state of
expansion and revision. Thus some may seem perfunctory treatments of large
topics, and there are infelicities of style and syntax that I am ever weeding
out.
I
also maintain
Blog et Noir which deals with my themes in a more playful and less
demanding spirit. The idea behind the blog is that people will come for the
jokes and stay — for the jokes. I will be Schroedinger's art critic: observe me
long enough, and I'll either be funny or dead. Or perhaps dead funny, if you're
Scottish. Anyhow, I may
be contacted here.
Yakov Rabinovich
Art Bulletins
1: The Tragic Art of Abstraction
2: Kandinsky: The Question of Form
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Philosophy Bulletins
3: Anima Mundi
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