November 2010
1 post
“This notion-that the artist’s personal vision could offer new archetypes,...”
– Drawing Now: eight propositions. Laura J. Hoptman.
September 2010
4 posts
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“The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a...”
– Walter Benjamin. The Work of Art and Mechanical Reproduction.
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“A modest attempt to re-tie severed bonds with the non-human world by negotiating...”
– Mark Dion. Artist Statement. Ecologies. 2001.
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“The axioms of the few are shared by the many; the latter believe superstitiously...”
– The Avant Garde and Kitsch. Clement Greenberg.
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“Content is to be dissolved so completely into form that the work of art or...”
– Clement Greenberg, “The Avant Garde and Kitsch”
August 2010
4 posts
2 tags
“Let us call an antischolar-someone who focuses on the unread books, and makes an...”
– The Black Swan. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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“the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this...”
– The Black Swan. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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“our tendency to mistake the map for the territory, to focus on pure and well...”
– The Black Swan. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
and a new earth
CUT TO COMMERCIAL the world is much larger and stranger than you have been led to believe there are extraordinary things in your everyday lives there are hidden treasures in familiar shadows you have been kept shielded shielded from the dangerous and untamable world of the actual we hand it all to you on a plate packaged and pristine the blandly mass-produced trinkets the omnipresent corporate...
July 2010
11 posts
2 tags
Born for larger journeys that this life has to give,
I never land on earth unless the step I take
impales me on a hundred thousand flowers.
With my eyes bound by the metaphor of colors
I dream of a single grain of sand,
the humble heir of our protean mountains,
and seed of earth’s yesterdays.
I no longer see my way
toward the flotsam of my imagination.
Where is the genius of my...
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“Life is the goal of art. True, art can underestimate its capacity and only...”
– Jean Arp. 1927.
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“but someday we’ll come to understand everything, suddenly changed by that...”
– Jean Arp. The Artist’s World.
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“…the critic, who is all too fond of reducing the work to fit his own...”
– Rene Huyghe. Preface of The Artist’s World by Daniel Frasnay.
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“The style is the man: therefore look at his paintings. But the man is also the...”
– Rene Huyghe. Preface of The Artist’s World by Daniel Frasnay.
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“When we depend less on industrially produced consumer goods, we can live in...”
– Living on the Earth. Alicia Bay Laurel.
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The descent beckons
as the ascent beckoned.
Memory is a kind
of accomplishment,
a sort of renewal
even
an initiation, since the spaces it opens are new places
inhabited by hordes
heretofore unrealized,
of new kinds-
since their movements
are toward new objectives
(even though formerly they were abandoned).
No defeat is made up entirely of defeat-since
the world it opens is always a...
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as for him who
finds fault
may silliness
and sorrow
overtake him
when you wrote
you did not
know
the power of
your words
Fragment. William Carlos Williams.
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“A thought is energy, and as it’s transmitted, it is multiplied. Thoughts...”
– Grayson. Lynne Cox.
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“Sometimes it’s the process of doing that makes things clear. If we...”
– Grayson. Lynne Cox.
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“Aesthetic harmony was empty if it did not reflect the range of human passions....”
– In the Tower: Mark Rothko
The Black Paintings. National Gallery of Art, Washington
June 2010
1 post
3 tags
“…Artistic expression is as basic to human beings as talking and is by no...”
– Cultural Anthropology - The Human Challenge, 12th Edition. Haviland, Prins, Walrath, McBride.
May 2010
1 post
4 tags
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous,...”
– Life of Pi. Yann Martel
March 2010
11 posts
3 tags
“You will see things you have never seen before…. You will understand why...”
– Old Moke. The Forest People. Colin M. Turnbull.
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“As if singing to himself, he said, “I was wrong. This is a good place,...”
– The Forest People. Colin M. Turnbull.
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“He told me how all Pygmies have different names for their god, but how they all...”
– The Forest People. Colin Turnbull.
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“…where the word caio comes from. If you must know, it’s an...”
– Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert.
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“Dante writes that God is not merely a blinding vision of glorious light, but...”
– Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. Quoting Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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“Virginia Woolf wrote, “Across the broad continent of a woman’s life...”
– Eat Pray Love. Elizabeth Gilbert. Quoting Virginia Woolf.
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“Me la cavo, is how you would say it in Italian, which basically means, “I...”
– Eat, Pray, Love. Elizabeth Gilbert.
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“A single word can open your heart; a single glance can tell you who you really...”
– Deepak Chopra. The Book of Secrets.
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“Pygmies have a way of letting you know when they really mean what they...”
– The Forest People. Colin M. Turnbull.
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“Every woman, when moving camp, carries with her a burning ember wrapped heavily...”
– The Forest People. Colin M. Turnbull.
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“The Pygmy is not in the least self-conscious about showing his emotions; he...”
– The Forest People. Colin M. Turnbull.