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Art illustrating the utter implausibility of kings in the 20th and 21st century

               Ubu Roi — wood cut by Alfred Jarry King Ubu is a figure conjured by the French artist Alfred Jarry, who led the way to the DADA movement, just before the turn of the 19th to 20th century. In Ubu, the illusion of grandeur was taken to the … Continue reading

Art and human suffering

. In my March 2022 post Falling Man, I contemplated on the tension between art and human suffering; how art may ignore suffering or even exploit it.  Here Auden’s poem “Museé des Beaux Arts” brought out the conflict in sharp contour with sarcasm and biting wit. Recall that the poem was inspired by that famous … Continue reading


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