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Dennis Wojtkiewicz
http://www.toryfolliard.com/painting/Dennis-Wojtkiewicz.shtml

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Mechanical Head [The Spirit of Our Age], c. 1920
by Raoul Hausmann

For Hegel…everything is mind. Among Hegel’s disciples and critics was Karl Marx. Hausmann’s sculpture might be seen as an aggressively Marxist reversal of Hegel: this is a head whose “thoughts” are materially determined by objects literally fixed to it. However, there are deeper targets in western culture that give this modern masterpiece its force. Hausmann turns inside out the notion of the head as seat of reason, an assumption that lies behind the European fascination with the portrait. He reveals a head that is penetrated and governed by brute external forces.

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