Entries by Brenton Sanderson

Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionism, and the Decline of Western Art, Part 3 of 3

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Convergence by Jackson Pollock (1952) Abstract Expressionism and the Culture of Critique Abstract Expressionism was disproportionately a Jewish cultural phenomenon. It was a movement populated by legions of Jewish artists, intellectuals, critics, and patrons. Prominent gentile artists within the movement like Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell married Jewish women (Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler). Willem […]

Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionism, and the Decline of Western Art, Part 2 of 3

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Go to Part 1. Wisconsin landscape by John Steuart Curry (1938-39) Creating a New “American” Art Before the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1940s, the American art scene was defined by two main currents. The first were the Regionalists (e.g. Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry) who used their own signature […]

Mark Rothko, Abstract Expressionism, and the Decline of Western Art, Part 1

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Mark Rothko The life and career of Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko is a prototypical Jewish story that encapsulates a range of themes discussed at The Occidental Observer. Central to Rothko’s story is the political radicalism of Eastern European Jewish migrants arriving in the United States between 1880 and 1920; the reflexive hostility of these […]

The War on White Australia: Cheap Labor Importation Schemes

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I have written extensively about the pivotal role played by Jewish intellectuals and activists as ideological and political handmaidens of the demographic transformation of Australia over the last fifty years (see here, here, here, here and here). In this essay I want to explore another key driver of this transformation: business interests fixated on suppressing […]

Review: Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism, Part 2

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Go to Part 1. Zionist Eugenics Notions of race and racial competition pervaded Zionist thinking in the early to mid-twentieth century, a time when “volkisch conceptions were firmly established among Zionist intellectuals.”[i] Raphael Falk notes how “Zionist writers appealed to biological conceptions of race and nation and displayed an awareness of their responsibility not only […]

Review: Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism, Part 1

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  Jewish engagement with evolutionary theory is an important dimension of modern Jewish history and thought. While Jewish leaders and intellectuals have used the science of evolution to bolster notions of Jewish identity, they have also confronted and (often fiercely resisted) the use of evolutionary theory to conceptualize conflict between Jews and non-Jews. Published in […]

Triggered by Bach: Classical Music as Implicit White Supremacy

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“White supremacist” has long been the preferred Jewish epithet to throw at White people who have the temerity to do what Jews do routinely: openly advocate for their ethnic interests. This hackneyed label has always been utterly beside the point: whether Whites are superior to non-Whites has no logical bearing on the moral legitimacy of […]