2005.02.26 12:15
Re: christo
Re: orange running (silt) fence
sehr unbekannt!
Is Aronson's Hype worth reading now 22 years later?
"People no longer do anything with respect to what they're doing," writes Mr. Aronson, "they do everything with respect to that third eye, which is the eye of People magazine." Our culture is "sorely menaced" by what he calls "hype," "the merchandising of a product—be it an object, a person, or an idea—in an artificially engendered atmosphere of hysteria, in order to create a demand for it or to inflate such demand as already exists." Hype is a "conspiracy" against a gullible American public, "a force that makes a mockery of the human essence"; it debases our language and "manipulates taste as it vitiates our power to discriminate." These claims raise serious questions: How are careers and reputations inflated by publicity and promotion? Are critics of American culture correct that our conceptions of status and power are shaped by press agents and public relations men?
2005.02.26 13:01
Re: guthrie decon
This architecture immediately reminded me of the ancient Roman Tomb of Eurysaces (circa 30 BC).
 
I see reenactionary architecturism here in a funny kind of way. Given Le Corbusier's admiration of grain silo architectures, can the Tomb of Eurysaces be seen as an unlikely precursor of the whole "box raised on pilotis" paradigm? The holes in the tomb 'box' also remind me of Koolhaas' House in Bordeaux, which is indeed a reenactionary riff off the 'box raised on pilotis' paradigm.
There is a reason Le Corbusier is presently staying at the W.W.II bunker at Cape May Point.
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2005.02.26 14:00
Re: TOP TEN philosophical trends - Unbekannt
2002.04.09 16:08
"Can Art Be Taught"
The following is an excerpt from "Can Art Be Taught?" by Calvin Tomkins in this week's New Yorker:
...The virtual takeover of art teaching by the universities in this country has coincided with the dying out of teaching methods passed down from the medieval guilds to the apprenticeship system of the Renaissance and, after, to the nineteenth-century beaux-arts academies in Europe, and this has had a profound effect on the kind of art that gets produced.
"Can there be any doubt that training in the university has contributed to the cool, impersonal wave in art of the sixties?" the critic Harold Rosenberg observed in 1970. In order to become an academic discipline, art had to be intellectualized. Craft and technique were subordinated to verbal analysis, problem solving, and critical theory. University-based art teaching, in fact, became more and more like scientific research, with the pursuit of ideas as its primary goal.
2005.02.27 11:37
Re: guthrie decon
The hi-res USGS aerials of Philadelphia (2002) are pretty good. I was even able to detect the newly planted cedar trees of Cedar Grove, Philadelphia. Now on to Trumbauer architecture in situ.
2005.02.28 19:49
Re: TOP TEN philosophical trends
I've never really read any Pynchon. I borrowed Gravity's Rainbow from the Free Library early 2004 (indeed in preparation for 'my Rita Novel idea), but I only read a few pages. A bit too many words for me.
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note to self
2004.02.03
collecting ideas - rita novel
12. There was the idea that Jim Williams this year at the König Ludwig Lauf--www.koenig-ludwig-lauf.com--had memorized Gravity's Rainbow, and this is a way to introduce passages which Jim slightly alters to make it all non copyright infringement.
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Looks like I'm gonna go borrow the book again, and maybe I'll actually try reading it all this time. I know, I'll get a copy via eBay.
Well, yesterday was Constantine's and Elizabeth Taylor's birthday.
March 3rd is James Merrill's birthday. I like how a passage from The Changing Light at Sandover was quoted in Artforum last year. That book I did read!
I'm meeting with my Merrill/Lynch broker on Wednesday. I'll ask him if he read The Changing Light at Sandover too?
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2005.03.01 11:09
Monkey Sea Voyage .4
To: tout fait www Duchamp bulletin board
Subject: Museum Trip 2002.09.15
Date: 2002.10.14 16:53
Museum Trip 2002.09.15 is the latest edition of the Museum Trip series at Museumpeace.
 
[inactive link] contains images of Richard Hamilton's reenactment of Oculist Witnesses (within a gallery containing other recently/temporarily installed Hamilton works, and a number of mostly detail images of Yvonne and Magdeleine Torn in Tatters.
[inactive link] contains images of Hamilton's Museum Studies 6, essentially another reenactment (albeit in paper) of The Large Glass with lots of notes added.
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