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Kiefer on Art

February 8, 2013

“All of painting, but also Literature, and all that goes with it, is merely a process of going round and round something inexpressible, round a black hole or crater whose centre one cannot penetrate. And those things one seizes on… Continue reading →

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One off: Jean-Siméon Chardin

February 1, 2013

  Portrait of Madame Chardin, 1775 by Jean-Siméon Chardin “Chardin’s genre paintings, like Vermeer’s before him, go much further than that. By a technical feat which virtually defies analysis — though one writer has remarked helpfully on Chardin’s characteristic choice… Continue reading →

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From “Hotel Lautreamont” by John Ashberry

February 1, 2013

It remains for us to come to terms with our commonality. Small wonder that those at home sit nervous by the unlit grate. It was their choice, after all, that spurred us to feats of the imagination. It remains for… Continue reading →

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Beckett on Language

February 1, 2013

“It is indeed becoming more and more difficult, even senseless, for me to write an official English. And more and more my own language appears to me like a veil that must be torn apart in order to get at… Continue reading →

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Adams on Form

December 29, 2012

“Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us to meet our worst fear, the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning. James Dickey was right when he asked, rhetorically, “What is… Continue reading →

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One off: Tim Carpenter

November 27, 2012

From Illinois Traction, by Tim Carpenter.

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O’Sullivan & Adams

November 23, 2012

“We know, as we recognize the commonness of places, that this is our world and the the photographer has not cheated on his way to his affirmation of meaning.” — Robert Adams, “In The Nineteenth-Century West”, Why People Photograph Photograph: Timothy O’Sullivan, Sand Dunes,… Continue reading →

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Berger on the narrative gap

November 23, 2012

“Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense of that life, the empty space, the gap is enormous. The desolation lies, lies there, not… Continue reading →

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W.J.T. Mitchell on the image

September 16, 2012

If the stakes seem a bit lower in asking what images are today, it is not because they have lost their power over us, and certainly not because their nature is now clearly understood. It is a commonplace of modern… Continue reading →

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One off: John Smith’s “The Girl With Chewing Gum”, 1976

July 5, 2012

                  John Smith, The Girl With Chewing Gum, 1976.

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