2025.11.03
Recap of the creative activity throughout October 2025
  hare, thanks again. Your comments always inspire me to think further. First, this story is most aimed at the entrenched academics of art history, the self appointed gate keepers. And now, thinking further, I see Duchamp, after the great notoriety of NUDE DECENDING NO 2 in early 1913, getting a taste of Taylor's fame. The first readymade, BICYCLE WHEEL of later 1913, is Duchamp's trophy for himself, and in early 1914 Duchamp shows himself as an apprentice to Taylor's way.
  
. . . since I'm now beginning to imagine Étant donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the counterpoint to the Barberini Faun at the Munich Glyptothek, I wonder if the hole in Étant donnés's brick wall references the post-WWII bombed out Glyptothek--remember, Duchamp started working on Étant donnés in 1946.
       . . . earlier, this 1992- piece was rechristened NEUTERS DESCENDING A STAIRCASE.
2000.11.03
the architect's wife style .0
Going through my collection of digital clips from TWO FOR THE ROAD inspired me to (soon) install a mini exhibit at www.quondam.com entitled "the architect's wife style". As Joanna, Audrey Hepburn wears an assortment of very MOD fashion (designs). Normally, modernism and romanticism (in design) are anathama, but not in TWO FOR THE ROAD. If any movie can be labeled "romantic modern collage", it's TWO FOR THE ROAD (and you'll see what I mean if you watch the whole movie through to the end).
the architect's wife style .1
The collage begins innocently enough with young architect and future architect's wife casually clad in the proto-manifestations of GAP ensembles of every fourth season or so.
With all the success and luxury of being zoomed fast forward into the jet set, however, the trappings of fashion and style really only become accessories within a double theater of love and hate.
the architect's wife style .2
"Clearly, everything is NOT ok in this marriage. More and more, all Mark talks about is 'spatial this' and 'spatial that'. I sometimes wish I was in outer space."
"That's it! I'll survive all this pretentious "spatiality" with my own expression of space alienation."
the architect's wife style .3
That alien look works well. It is certainly the ability to easily morph that is the most attractive.
"I wonder what Mark meant when he said I was his topological inspiration."
the architect's wife style .4
Classic camp interlude: the statue's umbilicus becomes the plug for a telephone cord. Symbolic connection is symbolic communication is symbolic connection.
the architect's wife style .5
"But isn't simple elegance what's most becoming? Isn't that the best style? Yet here I am about to sleep with a man that's not my husband. I guess that's stylish too. Maybe it is true that reality now reenacts its own illusory mirror."
the architect's wife style .6
So let the show begin.
Lights! Camera! Action!
the architect's wife style .7
"I am iconic."
"I am electronic."
"I am beyond surface."
the architect's wife style .8
"So, does Mark ever really understand me? Does he get the message?"
"I love you. Let's go shopping."
1984.11.03
POP!!
|