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Art after Art after Art
Charles Ray’s Unpainted Sculpture is a full-scale, monochrome rendering in fiberglass, duplicated piece by piece through a mechanical process, of a totaled Pontiac Grand Am.1 The accident that wrecked...
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All around us the bodies rose out of the stone, crowded into groups, intertwined, or shattered into fragments, hinting at their shapes with a torso, a propped up arm, a burst hip, a scabbed shard,...
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The Dialectics of Damage: Art, Form, Formlessness
Is damaged art still art? There are two ways to approach the question. The first is ontological; it is a question of how much a work of art can be changed, damaged, or altered (the water-logged...
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INJURED BONE Injured bone. Here’s one to talk. Akhenaten got the ankh by the tail. Today’s worker ant has a crook and flail And a monotheistic religion. Injured bone. Key’s in the ignition....
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Tangled Up in Blue
Mid-way through his 2003 New Yorker profile on James Turrell, Calvin Tomkins makes a telling mistake. Tomkins has been charting the artist’s development as a young painter influenced by the likes of...
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Rose-Period Picasso
Introduction I am interested here in Boy Leading a Horse, a canvas Picasso painted at the beginning of 1906, during his so-called “Rose Period,” usually taken to refer to the years 1905 to 1906 (fig....
View ArticleThe Age of the Crisis of Man
Both as intellectual and as literary history — as an account of the relation between the two in the mid-20th century and an attempt to reimagine the relation between the two in the early 21st century —...
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Max Horkheimer and The Sociology of Class Relations
In the fall of 1943 Max Horkheimer composed multiple drafts of an essay entitled “On the Sociology of Class Relations.” The essay was intended for inclusion in the collaborative project with Theodor W....
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