“Is there an art that is dangerous? Yes. It is that art which upsets the conditions of life.”–Charles Baudelaire. What are the conditions of life? Simply put: that which sustains it. Does art sustain life? Does literature? Does poetry? No. None of those practices are required to sustain life. And we are better off for [...]
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Mortality and Flatulence: a Conversation with Luca Dipierro
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged animation, art, book trailers, comics, Das Ding, Dawn Raffel, drawing, German Illustration, Gustave Doré, Luca Dipierro, mortality, Rabelais on December 17, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I first saw Luca Dipierro’s work in an animation he’d made for a book of short stories by Dawn Raffel. It was a stop motion video based on a story in which a young woman and her father try to find their car in a parking lot one night in winter. The wind off the lake is [...]
Kicking Out the Poets
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aesthetics, art, city of pigs, Glaucon, GMA Grube, Homer, human nature (whatever that means), imitation, Milgram Experiment, mimesis, myrrh, Plato, poets, really awesome chairs, Socrates, Stanford Prison Experiment, techne, the Forms, The Republic, wreaths on September 9, 2011 | 9 Comments »
For my post-introduction aesthetics post, I wanted to talk some about Plato, and specifically whether and why the poets need to be kicked out of our ideal city. Originally I planned to cover Plato and Aristotle in one post, because Aristotle’s Poetics is often treated as a direct challenge or at least response to Plato’s [...]
art and self-restraint: the work of david shrigley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, David Shrigley, drawing, Glasgow, Lily Hoang, Matthew Simmons, Minimalism, self-restraint on January 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
I laughed a little when I found this drawing on the website for David Shrigley, a Glasgow-based artist. There’s not much to it, but for some reason it’s funny. Also a little unsettling. I realized I was laughing not so much because it’s comedic (though it might be) but because it’s absurd. There’s hardly anything [...]
“Froth” and “Cloud Formations”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, Artists, Frost, John Madera, Thomas Bernhard on December 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
“You know,” the painter said, “that art froth, that artist fornication, that general art-and-artist loathsomeness, I always found that repelling; those cloud formations of basest self-preservation topped with envy…Envy is what holds artists together, envy, pure envy, everyone envies everyone else for everything…I talked about it once before, I want to say: artists are the [...]
There and Not There: the World Trade Center Towers in Art
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Man on Wire", "Weather Diaries, "West Side Highway", art, documentaries, James Marsh, Jari Silomäki, Mitch Epstein, Philippe Petit, photography, twin towers, World Trade Center on July 5, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Below are three works of art that include, as part of their subjects, the World Trade Center towers. I. This picture was taken in 1977. Its effect, for a long time, derived mainly from its symbolism – from what its juxtapositions suggest about modern life. A man rests on a cot beside a large American [...]
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