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Author: Michael Eden

Michael Eden is an artist and researcher working in London and the south east, his artistic practice is concentrated on painting and he divides his time between this and lecturing in art history and contextual studies.

Postmodernity, a Trinity of Crises

18/05/2018

Trying to understand the postmodern is famously difficult but this series of articles is supposed to help!...

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Postmodernism: Anti-Art reflecting a knowing society

18/05/2018

There is a constant push and pull over what makes an artwork art, this is one of the core issues at work in postmodernism....

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The Ticking Bomb, Torture & the CIA

11/05/2018

Don't be sucked into the false urgency of popular culture illustrations like 24, torture is wrong! ...

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Postmodernism ‘Phoenix’ In Commas

11/05/2018

There is much debate about what epoch we are currently in, have we moved from postmodernism to some other overarching force? Probably not!...

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Geoff Diego Litherland, Painter of Another Present

01/05/2018

Explore human hopes and technological power while worrying away at the fragility of life on Earth, welcome to the worlds of Geoff Diego Litherland. ...

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Phillip Allen Body & Mind

24/04/2018

Treading the line between the desire to create recognisable forms with a more strictly modernist painting approach, Phillip Allen has a wonderfully impure painterly style. ...

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What Dreams May Come?

13/04/2018

We all dream and since nobody will listen to us explain them it may be the most neglected area of our lives!...

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Max Klinger & The Freudian Unconscious

03/04/2018

Max Klinger is a thought provoking artist who was influential on early modernism his work not only helps to explain complex theories but also helped to form them!...

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Damien Meade, Duality, Beginnings & Endings

30/03/2018

Damien Meade is an Irish born painter working in oils, he uses unfinished clay sculptures to give his work a sense of being dynamically in process....

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‘We Can Make You Blind’ The Adventures of Cambridge Analytica

20/03/2018

Do you worry that people never tell you straight and only want to manipulate you? Well you should! Welcome to Cambridge Analytica....

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What the Dickens! The End of the Social Climber?

09/03/2018

Is it possible to feel a warm glow when we consider the poor and underprivilaged of our own country? Can we still climb the social ladder? ...

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Terracotta Daughters 2012-2030

06/03/2018

Prune Nourry started working on 'Terracotta Daughters' in 2012, the statues she created in conjunction with craftspeople have become both installations and performance pieces that stand for great...

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Decolonising Higher Education, But What Does it Mean?

13/02/2018

Is decolonising higher education a good thing? and what does it mean? find out more here....

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New Reasons to be Depressed Confirmed! :(

06/02/2018

Social media is depressing, but we just cant stop. Maybe talking about it will help, in person!...

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Sonia Boyce and a Meta Criticism of the Critics

06/02/2018

The Manchester Art museum and the disappearing/reappearing Nymphs, do we benefit from seeing them? or are we perpetuating tired tropes? ...

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Ghost Cities and the Art that Haunts Them

23/01/2018

Huge concrete ghosts emerging all over the world haunt developed and developing countries....

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Against the Indignities of Trump, We Are Either All Together, or We Fall

18/01/2017

Pearlclutching and professional outrage led us here, it's time to speak plainly....

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bullies, empathy, sympathy

Sympathy/Empathy: The Very Air That Evil Breathes.

11/01/2017

Manipulating the reader's revulsion at the bias of a clumsy attack is now an established technique of political propaganda ...

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The Ivory Tower, Trump, and the Eclipse of Dignity

06/01/2017

If a Trump win came partly as a reaction to 'the PC brigade', it has to be said they presented an easy target...

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JL David, Napoleon

President Trump, Napoleon and The Eclipse of Dignity

29/12/2016

Does history, art or philosophy offer any survival tips for the incoming US presidency?...

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Escaping the Vortex: Would Wyndham Lewis Have Approved?

23/12/2016

Vorticism's urge to cut away the fat of modern life remains valid today...

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Blast, Vorticism

Blasting Out of the Vortex: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism

17/12/2016

From catastrophe comes creativity - Sail into the Vortex....

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Science & Modern Man, the right (and wrong) way to take Wyndham Lewis.

12/12/2016

Lewis looked upon his contemporaries with a measure of scorn, but at least attempted to engage them positively...

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Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women

07/12/2016

Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn...

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When the Sleeper Wakes

And When the Sleeper Wakes? (H.G.Wells, Wyndham Lewis and Nietzche)

28/11/2016

Flirting with Fascism is a dangerous game, particularly when misinterpreting Nietzche...

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Friends as Enemies and Enemies as Friends…. (Wyndham Lewis)

21/11/2016

Despite popular myth, Wyndham Lewis (through sheer stubbornness and inflated ego) actually avoided association with Fascism....

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Wyndham Lewis

Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity

14/11/2016

With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism....

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Brexit: The Betrayal of the Young

30/06/2016

Put the kids in basement and lock the door. We don’t want them consorting with them bloody foreigners!...

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Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells (Part Two)

27/06/2016

150 years after his birth, the influence of H.G. Wells on contemporary art is still being felt....

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Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells

17/06/2016

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. ...

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