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...Just when it seems as though we are finally cutting through the bullshit, Jeremy Hoch, Sandipis superior, materializes out of thin air. If Jeremy is above Sandip, then surely Sandip canit be the commander. iSandip is the commander!i Jeremy blurts, unable to contain himself. Sandip is less confident...
...century culture. We've been seeing an aesthetic of what I call recombinant. Whether you're dealing with the visual, photography, sculpture, painting, you name it. But the appropriation an reminding of different elements has been in everything from Duchamp's early work, to Picasso, to John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch. Sampling is an extension of that tradition, but on another level it's what's been going on in African-American culture from mainly a jazz side of things...
Odds and ends: Still no sign of Monica Seles, two weeks after the conclusion of the Australian Open, the tournament that was supposed to mark her return to women's tennis. Maybe she's waiting for Nancy and Tonya to get out of her spotlight...Great to see Scott Hoch win another golf tournament last weekend in the Bob Hope Chryseler Classic. Hoch "as in choke, who blew a two-foot putt that would have won him the 1989 Masters, won for the first time since that fateful season, and in light of his top-six finish last year...
...exhilarations -- and perils -- of bold action were part of Maxwell's appetite from the start. Born Jan Ludvik Hoch in the Czech village of Solotvino, he lost his parents and four siblings at Auschwitz. Having left for Budapest in 1939, he arrived in France early the following year and sailed to Liverpool a few months later. He won Britain's Military Cross in January 1945 for leading a platoon against a German defensive position. In London after the war, he launched Pergamon Press, a scientific publisher. In 1969 Maxwell lost the company in a scandal: he was charged with misrepresenting...
...city was seen as the mill of oppression, grinding women down into whoredom and men into anonymity. German artists like George Grosz, Karl Hubbuch and the remarkable and still underknown Hannah Hoch imagined it as a grotesque theater, full of libido and irony -- the stage of a morality play, updated to reflect the postwar sense of despair. From Grosz in Berlin to Frans Masereel in Antwerp, an enormous iconography of city life -- its edginess, speed, compression, perversion, fixation on style -- developed in the '20s. The idea that the city is constructed of signs, of media and information overload as much...