R. Stevens’ “Diesel Sweeties” as an example of Reconstructivist Art Diesel Sweeties is a subversive and deceptively simple web-based comic strip depicting the lives, passions and tangled love affairs of a motley group of humans,[…]
to reawaken a sense of the Real in a world where everything has been demonstrated to be an illusion
In honor of Michael Jackson’s birthday this week, please enjoy this essay about his song, Smooth Criminal, considered as an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art. Michael Jackson’s hit single Smooth Criminal is an object lesson in[…]
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Lion King‘s premiere on Broadway (July 8, 1997) please enjoy this repost of an essay about it as an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art. Along with “The Princess[…]
I’m not usually one to rave about a video game, but this simple, easy to play , quick to complete game changed my entire evaluation of the potential of video games as an art form. A dark, existential humanist parable about an office drone, the game uses a severely limited set of options and locations as a strength rather than a weakness
I remember when the big news was that “It was 20 years ago today…” was actually 20 years old. Now it’s 50. In honor of the half-century anniversary of this groundbreaking album, please enjoy this[…]
Repost: Art Spiegelman’s Maus (1980 – 1991) as an example of Reconstructivist Art Comic book writer-illustrator Art Spiegelman is known for his transgressive, acid-tinged experimental comics in the 1970’s, and for his gleefully crude, commercially[…]
Note: This is a repost originally from 2010. Kutiman’s “Thru You” as an example of Reconstructivist Art YouTube debuted in 2005, an online public forum for people to share their own homemade videos. It soon[…]
The works of contemporary artist Jason Godeke as an example of Reconstructivist Art. Originally posted September 2007. Artist Jason Godeke has a distinctive and recognizable oeuvre centered around paintings of toys and figurines, posed in[…]
The Fugees (the name was a stylization of the word “refugees,” a reference to the Haitian origins of two of the members) was a seminal nineties hip-hop trio consisting of Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and[…]
