December 2010
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an expression of a predicament.
Anonymous asked: sorry for being so talkative, but i had to say that i love your music posts.
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beforeminusnow asked: your blog is incredible, seriously.
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Troubled Waters (Live in Paris, 2000) - Cat Power
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“Some of the sanctity of the church, the formality of the courtroom, the mystique of the experimental laboratory joins with chic design to produce a unique chamber of esthetics.
The ideal gallery subtracts from the artwork all cues that interfere with the fact that it is ‘art’. The work is isolated from everything that would detract from its own evaluation of itself.
(Inside...
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Notes on Bernd and Hilla Becher pt. 1
“The objects photographed are grouped together in grids, defined by the similarity of their structures. This system was set in place around 1966, when they decided on typologies of sets of nine and started to fully systematise types. They first used the term typology as the substitute for their 1969 book ‘Anonymous Sculptures’.
Although the number of images contained in the...
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“You have to be honest with your object to make sure that you do not destroy it with your subjectivity, and yet remain involved at the same time.”
- Hilla Becher
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“Despite appearing to fulfil Duchamp’s hope that photography would render painting ‘despicable’, the most prominent outcome of photography’s success turns out to be, ironically, the emergence of photography as a bona fied mainstream fine art medium through which to reinvigorate the Western tradition of picture-making.”
- Photography After Conceptual Art by...
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