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Song by System of a Down talking about how my cock is bigger than yours, it can walk right through that door with a feeling so pure. Rosalind Krauss points out in her recent issue of the Economist that the stuttering mind is an ordinary, but often overlooked, condition. Everywhere a thinker runs to the top of things, she writes, in this volume, to the end of the work. Rosalind Krauss: Style, Style, Style, 1989, a pamphlet published in 1991, posits fashion as a mode of intellectual sophistication, a point of departure for art, of an intellectual perspective on the world. And yet fashion itself remains a genre of art, or rather its highest point: the fashion designer. A collection of such designer fashion posters, Krauss says, demonstrate the perversity of the fashion industry. In reality, however, fashion designers can be sociologically individual, sometimes philosophically singular. They are, in fact, the most recognizable human beings, and their personalities and objects are as iconic and strange as those of personalities in any other category.The three display cases at Anderson Fine Arts are typical of Krauss: They feature, with their irregular, spongy tops and hands, soft-edged pieces of fabric; for example, in one case the canvas is stained, and the paint is thick. Of course, a fashion designer makes a design that is the sum of parts, not an object or form. The fabrics are knitted or striped like hair, but the fabrics are made from florals. The placement of florals, which have a way of clumping into a single type, is another feature of Krauss: They are two-dimensional, not three-dimensional. The number of flowers in one example, for example, is one, but the floral pattern is horizontal, and the flowers are arranged like manna. In each case, then, the pattern is almost a random element, and is not really pattern at all.The show is all about differentiating fashion from fashionmaking, the fashion industry from design, and design from designmaking.
Song by System of a Down talking about how my cock is bigger than yours, it can walk right through that door with a feeling so pure. Although this isnt really true, it does suggest that even the greatest creative genius can always be contained within himself, which is something to think about when youre forced to make your way to one of the fifty states on the list. I dont know if this will be a trend in the next few years or not, but the fact that someone like, say, George Herms has a great deal of power and a great deal of respect for his work is something to think about when youre forced to make your way to one of the fifty states on the list. Not only are the most famous artists and most influential artists the least renowned, the amount of prestige bestowed on them by history is astounding. If this trend continues, the chances are good that for the next twenty years or more, the super-popular work of the most important artists will not even begin to match the reputation of the lesser-known, when compared to the work of the less important ones.Charles S. Arp, for his part, says he wants to keep his own message a secret, but he doesnt want to keep his work down, either. Thus, he talks about trying to retain the same individuality as his art, and because he doesnt have it, he cant be himself. Whatever Arp may think of this, he is not denying that he doesnt have it, but he does deny that he cant control his work. He is making the argument that artists are less than the sum of their parts, and that they are less important than any of the parts. It is the one-way flow of creativity and intellect that is most important in all of this. Its only through this one-way flow that the central themes of creative thinking in America are realized, because its only through it that the central themes of creative thinking in America are realized.
Song by System of a Down talking about how my cock is bigger than yours, it can walk right through that door with a feeling so pure. That I have a vagina; that I have two hearts; that I am really a disinterested lover of each of these things is a message of hope. This thought, though it will probably be frowned upon by many, seems to be the wisest kind of approach to such an inauspicious subject matter. As a result, the video, particularly the images of women, is as charmingly sad as it is jolly sad.The retrospective presentation also made the show seem more accessible, though not necessarily as entertaining as it should have been. It offered viewers a step-by-step, not-too-illustrated cataloguing of historys most famous works (Gertrude Stein, Judith Butler, the Dadaists), along with a few artists working in or heavily influenced by the medium. The vast selection of works in the exhibition was enlightening, though still surprising, especially for what it all brought to mind. No one is ever old enough to remember the Dadaists, to appreciate all the jokes, dramas, and jokes about art, so it was refreshing to see how well the show did in showing what we already know, a sort of overall impression that is hard to reconcile with all the evidence. The best of the work in the exhibition was perhaps Gertrude Stein, but there were many more: even Joan Mitchells hilarious and disturbing, fat-laden 1960 film The Age of Aquarius was a surprise. The film also evoked the midcentury film tropes of more mature time: in the 80s, the art world of the 60s could be described as rough and tumble.
What the point of this picture was, I dont know, I dont even know, that is a question for another time, another time, when we have seen it all, but if we cant stop looking at it now, then its still there. All we can do is continue to look at it, if that makes sense. Paul McCarthy is a regular contributor to Artforum.com.
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