Tag: art

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Gerhard Hallstatt is an Upper Austrian musician, photographer, and writer, though he currently focuses primarily on music with his experimental band Allerseelen. He previously served as the publisher of the small but influential underground magazines Aorta and Ahnstern, using the pseudonym Adam Kadmon. These limited-circulation publications focused primarily on esoteric philosophy, magic, sacred architecture, art history, and cultural poetry, as well as half-forgotten National Socialist artists and occultists. (more…)

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Editor’s Note: This is a transcript of a recently released video of Jonathan Bowden speaking about British art. Some passages are repeated because they are repeated in the video. You can watch the video here.

All culture replicates ethnicity and race at another level of mental construction. The whole point of human culture, and why there are so many diverse ones of various artistic and intellectual standards, is because they replicate what human beings are at a higher level. (more…)

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In the late 19th century, there was a debate raging in the salons across Europe over what is the proper aim of art. You had the modernists who believed that art should try to reflect reality and then you had the aesthetes who believed that the purest art was art that was entirely the product of the imagination. There are legends about how Vincent van Gogh lost his ear, and one of them is that van Gogh lost his ear after an “Aestheticism versus Realism” debate with another artist escalated into violence. (more…)

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New Europe

It is beyond our scope to provide even a brief overview of the state of cinema in each European country. We can only note that in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and the Balkan countries, film production remained modest even in the pre-war years [1] and that while American and French films dominated continental Europe before the war, they were replaced by German and Italian films during the war. (more…)

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Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

There are only a few films directly about the National Socialist party – that is, about “the Nazis”. The first of these, SA Mann Brand (1933, dir. Franz Seitz), appeared in the spring after the seizure of power and, coming from a Munich director of light comedies, was a purely opportunistic endeavor that did not even appeal to members of the SA. (more…)

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Just two months after the victory of the National Socialist German Workers Party in the March 1933 elections and the subsequent “takeover” of power, the Film Credit Bank was established in Germany (the NSDAP had had a film division since 1930). In order to free the local film industry from the direct or indirect influence of Jewish capital [1] and revive film production affected by the global financial crisis, it will cover up to 70% of production costs and contribute to 22 feature films and short films by the end of the year. (more…)

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I couldn’t be more inspired. After I saw the statue of a twelve-foot fat black woman glaring at everyone while her rolls of fat undulated permanently in bronze, I felt like I could go and kick a donkey’s head off its body. That’s how invigorated I was. (more…)

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I’m a desperate man who denounces the dullness of money and status.
I’m a desperate man who will not bow down to accolade or success.
-Billy Childish, Chatham Town Welcomes Desperate Men
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Statue of Pallas Athena, goddess of wisdom, at the Austrian Parliament.

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Part 9 of 14 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 10 here)

There is a deeper problem with Plato’s account of justice in the Gorgias. He treats it as an art (techne). But is justice really an art like medicine? In such dialogues as the Laches, Charmides, and Euthydemus, Plato explores the problems of treating moral wisdom as a techne. This is the error of the sophists. (more…)

Ondrej Mann

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I came to racialism in a curious way. There is a well-known singer in our country, Daniel Landa, who sang in the skinhead band Orlik and then went on to a solo music career, where he recorded many albums and composed several musicals. Landa is a role model for a lot of white guys in the Czech Republic: He’s a tough guy, a wrestler, a spiritual guru, a car racer, and a music composer. (more…)

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Tom Wolfe
The Painted Word
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1975 (many editions since)

Long before he died, Tom Wolfe deeded his archives to the New York Public Library (NYPL). When he passed on in 2018, the NYPL put up a little “pop-up” exhibition in commemoration. It would have been bigger, but the Library had just done a slap-up interview and celebration with Wolfe a year and a half earlier, and had mounted another small display of Wolfeiana a year before that. (more…)

One Day Like This (2023) (From Kieron Williamson’s official website)

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Of the many things in this world which I know nothing about, the one for which I wish this wasn’t the case is art. Not only do I possess zero skills in drawing, painting, or sculpting, I know next to nothing about art history, the various artistic movements, or the art world. Despite my severe lack of knowledge on the subject, I still thoroughly enjoy art. (more…)

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Morgoth (Substack, Odysee) was Greg Johnson‘s special guest on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, where they discussed Denis Villeneuve’s new film Dune: Part Two and of course answered listener questions. In the second hour, they were joined by Endeavour (Substack). (See Trevor Lynch’s reviews of Dune and Dune: Part Two for Counter-Currents; also see our Frank Herbert commemoration for links to all our resources on Dune and Frank Herbert.) (more…)