tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89401134318789251732024-03-05T16:50:04.380-05:00Criticism Seminar Summer, 2010This blog is here to help jump start the conversation for our seminar. I will ask that discussion questions and comments be posted on line by 5pm the night before class. We will also use this site to plan the newsletter that will be produced as part of the course.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-15028034803306131702010-08-08T13:30:00.001-04:002010-08-08T13:32:46.099-04:00Crit of the Critic<dl class="avatar-comment-indent" id="comments-block"><dt class="comment-author " id="c645483731267633409">Here is Candy Depew's response to Christine's review of her show. <br /></dt><dt class="comment-author " id="c645483731267633409"><br /></dt><dt class="comment-author " id="c645483731267633409"><a href="profile/16011918905478490578" rel="nofollow">cee cee</a> said... </dt><dd class="comment-body pid-895543274" id="Blog1_cmt-645483731267633409"> <p> Hello there!<br /><br />Just read this and thank you for your "review" of my work! Feel free to check out my past 10 years of exhibitions to notice my enduring themes of the skull, diamonds, leaves and sparkles; in particular the exhibition at the Physick House, "between worlds....". I am positive all will help you in your appreciation of my installation work and your writing.<br /><br />thank you for reading and I look forward to meeting you in person in the future!<br /><br />You will note, especially if delving a tiny bit deeper into the exhibitoin beyond surface layers that you write of, that motifs are recurring and have become a language far earlier than the recent ed hardy trend of the last 2 or so years.<br /><br />Most of the ceramic work was made in the land of the dutch still life at the European Ceramic Work Center, from special materials only available there and are highly specialized. If interested in ceramics at all, one would be able easily to appreciate the skill necessary to create such pieces as those arranged so carefully for presentation at the Art Alliance.<br /><br />I look forward to your art viewing/reviewing skills growing and developing greatly and any further analysis of my work. Feel free to share it with me directly. Hopefully it will be astute and on point and can be something that can be shared with my every growing network. <span class="interaction-iframe-guide"></span> </p> </dd><dd class="comment-footer"> <span class="comment-timestamp"> <a href="http://christinecolby.blogspot.com/2010/08/philadelphia-art-alliances-vanitas.html?showComment=1281271597179#c645483731267633409" title="comment permalink"> August 8, 2010 5:46 AM </a> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-895543274"> <a class="comment-delete" href="delete-comment.g?blogID=8877699054244861535&postID=645483731267633409" title="Delete Comment"> <img src="img/icon_delete13.gif" /> </a> </span> </span> </dd></dl> <p class="comment-footer"> </p> <a name="comment-form"></a> <h4 id="comment-post-message"><br /></h4>Heiseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362516195452037278noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-4380474503731214702010-08-05T21:31:00.000-04:002010-08-05T21:31:15.578-04:00Oh, and...I've been looking forward to this show a lot. Pray I am not disappointed...<br />
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http://postnonprofalyptic.blogspot.com/2010/08/putting-out-at-leonary-pearlstein.htmlAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-81160868361345130262010-08-05T21:21:00.000-04:002010-08-05T21:21:01.181-04:00Final class meetingTomorrow we'll hear your final presentations. We've been given room 833 in Terra for class, so let's meet there (although I strongly discourage you from using the Internet to make your presentation; it's not always accessible in conferences).<br />
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I would like to cluster presentations on Craft at the beginning of class. Jessica Cohen, Andy Heisey, Sean Mattio. Next we'll move on to papers that move around issue of history and memory, and hear from Christine Colby and Renee Cortese. After that the program can open up as I think there are no more overlaps.<br />
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I will be <i><b><span style="color: #660000;">very</span></b></i> firm about the 10-minute time limit. You need practice being well-rehearsed and I need practice (for a panel I am chairing this fall) moving the program along. I will have a timer. I will give a signal at 9 minutes. I will ask you to finish your sentence and sit down at 10 minutes. Questions will be addressed between presentations as the next presenter sets up.<br />
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If you're going to use your laptop do <b>not</b> expect there to be any adapters for the VGA cable in the room. Bring your own adapters. Because this is a 'smart' classroom, I assume you can move your presentation from your computer to the room's computer, but compatibility <i>may</i> be an issue. You may need a flash drive to do so (I will collect your scripts or digital copies of your presentations to review for comment).<br />
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Finally, I will be taking notes throughout the presentations so I can send letters to each of you with comments. I have been less than emphatic about grades because what really matters is the experience you have in the class and how it mirrors what you can expect in academic and professional life. <br />
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Looking forward to hearing about your research, and hopefully to making some meaningful progress toward the completion of your written thesis through this endeavor. See you in the morning.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-20410678825151309692010-08-04T19:31:00.000-04:002010-08-04T19:31:20.646-04:00Blue line onlineHi all<br />
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Please go to the class website where you can find <a href="http://www.gerardbrown.net/UArts_GR750/Readings.html">the pdf of the publication as it currently exists</a>. Please proofread your own piece for any changes, typos problems. Please do this carefully and with diligence as the mistakes after this will be there forever. Tom and I will also give it a once over. <br />
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Please get to Kristen by 1 PM on tomorrow, August 5, with any changes.<br />
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Thanks! ~gAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-5586836649345070062010-08-04T10:05:00.003-04:002010-08-04T10:08:30.517-04:00Barbara Kruger<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NtROr59RGsA/TFl0UMDVBTI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Itxh3IRa000/s1600/1.jpg+copy.jpg%2520copy"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NtROr59RGsA/TFl0UMDVBTI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Itxh3IRa000/s320/1.jpg+copy.jpg%2520copy" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501556309991163186" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NtROr59RGsA/TFlzwnM1_RI/AAAAAAAAAEw/wbLhycrwdIE/s1600/04189-%28BK%29.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 245px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NtROr59RGsA/TFlzwnM1_RI/AAAAAAAAAEw/wbLhycrwdIE/s320/04189-%28BK%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501555698803539218" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NtROr59RGsA/TFlz0RjQo9I/AAAAAAAAAE4/1ZArR-kejfk/s1600/Barbara-Kruger.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NtROr59RGsA/TFlz0RjQo9I/AAAAAAAAAE4/1ZArR-kejfk/s320/Barbara-Kruger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501555761711457234" border="0" /></a>Jcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172005545883019890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-47341065166911570702010-08-04T06:51:00.001-04:002010-08-04T06:52:58.784-04:00Presentation guidelines for Friday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://rlv.zcache.com/my_lecturer_rocks_tshirt-p235508817239563193gv19_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://rlv.zcache.com/my_lecturer_rocks_tshirt-p235508817239563193gv19_400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I discussed in some detail what I expect for Friday's presentations, and so have been loathe to re-write those remarks for the blog. But I did want to point to the Southeastern College Art Conference's handy <a href="http://www.secollegeart.org/session-chairs.html">Crimes and Misdemeanors </a>tip sheet for collegial behavior.<br />
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We are still looking for a room in Terra in the even that internet access is unavailable, but I strongly suggest that you put your presentation <i>on your computer</i> (not use an online application) or site to present. Our only order of business Friday will be our presentations - we finsihed the round up last week.<br />
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There is one thing I want to stress out my comments Friday - that this week's presentation has the possibility of putting you fully 1/2 way to completing your thesis writing. I would encourage you to regard this as a serious chance to make progress toward that goal, either by synthesizing work you've done in previous papers or by breaking new ground you wanted to get to. In either case, it could be useful to indicate (briefly) in your presentation where you have yet to go in your research. My plan is to write each of you a detailed letter on the summer's work and offer suggestions for the fall. It would be good to know what you have in mind as a direction so I don't merely repeat what you already know or send you on a wild goose chase.<br />
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I'm sure I'll have an opportunity to say this again, but just in case we get too busy, I want to thank you all for an exciting summer you were each thoughtfully engaged in the seminar despite a grueling studio schedule and rose to the obligation of challenging one another in discussion. The compressed summer scheuld makes it difficult to run a seminar, but I looked forward to our every meeting and enjoyed them greatly.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-91622752548600653282010-08-03T00:30:00.000-04:002010-08-03T00:30:02.211-04:00Curators putting a new spotlight - on themselves<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/arts/design/30eakins.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/arts/design/30eakins.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss</a><br />
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Here is an article in the NY Times about the small Eakins show at the PMA. Karen Rosenberg reviews the show (which I saw and would recommend), comments on the many shows that feature curatorial strategies, especially x-rays, and talks about the history of the piece.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04891124659725434099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-9770945158348106702010-08-03T00:09:00.002-04:002010-08-03T00:16:53.170-04:00Exit Through The Gift Shop<a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/movies/16exit.html">http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/movies/16exit.html</a><div><br /></div><div>This is a review of the movie I mentioned in class a while ago. The big critical debate around this movie is whether or not the whole story is a hoax.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562152076148388231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-62222535740381473762010-08-01T18:30:00.002-04:002010-08-01T18:31:31.081-04:00No Internet ReminderHi All,<br /><br />Just wanted to remind everyone that on August 6th, the day of our presentations, that Anderson will not have internet service...Michele Kishitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08120922008763158000noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-64177691492236257932010-08-01T12:51:00.000-04:002010-08-01T12:51:54.278-04:00Just in case you want another blog to follow.<a href="http://blog.art21.org/category/columns/gastro-vision/">http://blog.art21.org/category/columns/gastro-vision/</a><br />
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I don't keep up with the Art 21 resources as much as I should; however, I think this one will be easy to follow. Gastro-vision is described as "food in contemporary art and visual culture." Yum!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-60920335147420018562010-07-30T12:38:00.001-04:002010-07-30T12:40:20.297-04:00Elaborating on distractions: Durian by Alex Himmelbaum<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">"Durian is a fruit native to a few regions of southeast Asia. It is large (between 1 and 16 kilograms), green and covered in hard needle-sharp spikes. Though more people fall victim to being crushed by falling Jackfruit, death by falling Durian would be much more gruesome and bloody. The large kidney-shaped fruit pods found inside are fleshy and absolutely delicious...if you like the combination of delicate sweetish, oniony flavor, with an alcoholic tinge and a texture like Camembert. Due to the high sulfur content in this unique and wonderful fruit, it gives off an odor reminiscent of fermented farts and creatively mouldering garbage. Like conjuring essence of burnt donkey sphincter. To those of us that appreciate the glory that is Durian, there is practically nothing as delicious. Make sure to get a perfectly ripe one as under-ripe Durian is as foul tasting as it is offensive to the smell."</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562152076148388231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-65973702646241893162010-07-30T11:01:00.001-04:002010-07-30T11:02:51.967-04:00More Lady Gaga!<a href="http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/76620/lethal-breasts-lady-gaga-katy-perry">The Summer of Lethal Breasts</a>Jcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172005545883019890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-73984250575287305962010-07-30T10:36:00.002-04:002010-07-30T10:41:01.361-04:00MRI Fruits and Veggies<a href="http://insideinsides.blogspot.com/">Inside Insides</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/food/francis_lam/2010/07/21/mri_scans_of_produce/index.html">Looking into the soul of fruit with MRI scans</a>Jcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172005545883019890noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-75383869305835477902010-07-30T09:17:00.000-04:002010-07-30T09:17:45.277-04:00Meetings for August 4th<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">9:00 Michele</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">9:15 Andy</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">9:30 Christine</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">9:45 Matt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">10:00 Sean</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">10:15 Lauren</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">10:30 Jess</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">10:45 Renee</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-11954345974756449472010-07-30T00:02:00.002-04:002010-07-30T00:04:07.694-04:00The Jerry Saltz Recap<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/jerry_saltzs_work_of_art_recap_5.html">http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/jerry_saltzs_work_of_art_recap_5.html</a><div><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562152076148388231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-74748273781287503882010-07-30T00:02:00.001-04:002010-07-30T00:02:42.934-04:00More about our favorite show<a href="http://www.artsjournal.com/anotherbb/2010/07/work-of-art-so-you-think-whos.html">http://www.artsjournal.com/anotherbb/2010/07/work-of-art-so-you-think-whos.html</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562152076148388231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-29048119684341469922010-07-28T21:50:00.000-04:002010-07-28T21:50:12.830-04:00Great Job!Thanks to all for a remarkably smooth editing process today! I read some very strong pieces and think we're going to have an excellent Criticism Seminar Newsletter this term. I look forward to finishing things up next week. Remember for Friday I will be bringing in some artists' writings for us to read and comment on in discussion. Bring your coffee.<br />
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Again, many thanks for an great showing on this project - now on to the last project...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-47416371086283821492010-07-27T15:35:00.001-04:002010-07-28T21:47:29.313-04:00Editpalooza, Wednesday 7/28<div style="color: #990000;"><b>Here's the drill for tomorrow's newsletter editing meeting:</b></div><br />
<ul><li>You should show up with your completed article (no more than 1000 words) in hand. You should have a digital file (on a laptop or a flash drive) of it <i>and</i> a hard copy for a classmate to read. Ideally, you will have proofread your piece before you arrive to remove any obvious errors. Come to M4 and be there at 9am.</li>
<li>Tom and Gerard will make a few general remarks and we'll begin editing by 9:30am. You'll be assigned a partner to read and edit. You may use M4, the Grad Lab, or any convenient and nearby space to accomplish your editing review.</li>
<li>From 9:30 - 10:30 you and your partner will work on your writings. The idea is not to change the idea that are there, but rather to bring them into focus by adding that which is needed for clarification and removing that which makes them hard to see. </li>
<li>Once you're done with making the editorial changes, you'll bring a revised copy to Tom or Gerard for final review. We'll make any suggestions and get the piece ready for final publication.</li>
<li>The essays will all be moved over to the designer's office at 12noon. </li>
</ul>Looking forward to an exciting reading day!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-11642126464044100322010-07-27T11:59:00.000-04:002010-07-27T11:59:29.169-04:00Not everything is for everyoneSo I wanted to talk about writing for a minute. I came across an interesting little kerfuffle online this weekend as I read <a href="http://www.artfagcity.com/2010/07/22/the-problem-with-academic-language-isnt-big-words/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArtFagCity+%28Art+Fag+City%29">ArtFag City</a>. It seems that Paddy Johnson has been mixing it up with a writer who posts as <a href="http://tremblebot.tumblr.com/post/833731124/tremblings-ive-spent-the-majority-of-my-day">Tremblings</a>. At issue is Johnson's sense that Tremblings' writing engages in "linguistic privilege — the practice of using big words as means of ensuring the reader (and typically the author) doesn’t know the essay lacks substantiated ideas". <br />
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In an effort to restrain this sort of excessive privilege-taking, Johnson proposes changes, and asks a 'friend in academia' to propose further edits. In the process, words are changed, avenues of investigation are pared down, and whatever they essay's original content was is redirected in the interest of some unarticulated ideal of 'readability'.<br />
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Johnson's bias against academic writing is so obvious (the story ran under a headline "The Problem with Academic Writing Isn't Big Words") as to be not worth discussing. What is interesting is the notion - proposed here by a writer in a popular media - that an idea occurring in writing should be accessible to readers. This is opposed to another idea - that what is being written should be understood by <i>those for whom it is written</i>. Tremblings gets at this fine distinction in a very interesting passage:<br />
<blockquote style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have to be incredibly specific in the words I use because remembrance means 35 different things to the scholars in my field. Same goes for memory, repetition, performance, etc. I have to take the time to say more than what might be necessary in some circles in order to not be perceived as misrepresenting the people I cite or the theories I believe in.</blockquote>Much of this semester, I have tried to wave the banner of readability and be an advocate for prose that engages the reader. I have recited the journalistic dictum, "You are writing for an educated and curious reader who has no idea what you're talking about" as a model to which one might subscribe. But that model applies well to <i>criticism</i>, especially of the journalistic stripe, and not so well to other forms of academic writing. <br />
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I spent much of the day fuming about this problem inclusive and exclusive writing because it is so easy to attack exclusive practices as elitist that their value has become obscured. At the end of the day, not everything is for everyone. Some writing is for 35 peers and colleagues who are going to take issue with the ideas it contains and use those as grist to teaching seminars of 10 - 15 graduate students. Subsequently, those 350-525 graduates are going to go into their profession talking about these ideas and their audiences, students, and peers are going to form opinions about them. Gradually, the idea will move through the culture, growing and diminishing in importance as it does. All too rarely, a truly gifted scholar (a Louis Menand or <a href="http://www.lewishyde.com/">Lewis Hyde</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uroWFR09WlU">Lawrence Weschler</a>, for instance) will figure out how to communicate directly with a larger community.<br />
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<i>Communicate</i> - which is to say, figure out how to make subjects relevant to that larger community so they will engage in discussion. Honestly, when is the art world going to be <i>okay</i> with the fact that there are differences among our interests and that not everything is okay with everybody? Somethings may never be relevant to some people (I am struggling to figure out why Marina Abramovic, whose exhibit at MoMA started the Johnson/Tremblings argument, matters in the first place). <br />
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So what we have in academic writing (aside from the obvious allusion to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o">Cool Hand Luke</a>) is an opportunity to define and address one's audience, to think about community in narrower terms than the art world usually does (a dear friend of mine laments the way the artists always say 'community' when 'industry' is more appropriate) and to speak to the people who need to understand what you're doing because they're invested in the same conversation. Academic writing is not intended for everyone, but when it's done, its ideas can be examined, evaluated, disseminated, or critiqued. It is - in the most real sense - writing for a community because communities have <i>boundaries</i>, shared interests that place them in genuine opposition to other communities' interests. Such writing requires precision, insight, depth, and conviction.<br />
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Readability can be helpful, too. But there's a time and place for it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09340633994481845256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-9379324507877566132010-07-26T13:22:00.000-04:002010-07-26T13:22:17.320-04:00the gap between art & entertainment<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-lasarow/art-versus-entertainment_b_658792.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-lasarow/art-versus-entertainment_b_658792.html</a><br />
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commentary on art, the entertainment industry, and audienceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-26805539433161988342010-07-26T11:29:00.004-04:002010-07-26T11:50:26.953-04:00Maxine Manges says: "You musn't shit on your own doorstep."<div>Ok, tentative connection with that quote, but I just really liked when she said that.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://theartblog.org/2010/07/book-reviews-‘vox-populi-we’re-working-on-it’-and-‘communities-of-sense-rethinking-aesthetics-and-politics’/">http://theartblog.org/2010/07/book-reviews-‘vox-populi-we’re-working-on-it’-and-‘communities-of-sense-rethinking-aesthetics-and-politics’/</a><div><br /></div><div>So I read this because I'm interested in how a thriving art collective in Philadelphia sees itself in the greater world of art collectives/art/Philadelphia/life. Seems relevant especially to conversations we've had in Professional Practices this summer.</div><div>I also read the second thing about aesthetics and politics. I felt pretty great about the last paragraph because it made me feel better about having to fight off glazed-over-eyes-time when even reading a summary of the volume. I appreciated her acknowledgement of the contradictory nature of the authors' point of view and use of language.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562152076148388231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-15972089435909395622010-07-26T09:12:00.002-04:002010-07-26T09:12:44.829-04:00The Critical Debate over Inception<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/movies/25scott.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1280149280-peT9+qwUZLjvMimtitXQHA">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/movies/25scott.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1280149280-peT9+qwUZLjvMimtitXQHA</a><br />
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Article by A.O. Scott in the NY times about how the critical debate over Inception formed itself (and informed itself) before the movie even opened.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04891124659725434099noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-47711328930523362662010-07-25T20:08:00.003-04:002010-07-25T20:16:16.664-04:00New Magazine That I LoveI went to Borders today and found an AMAZING magazine<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://www.elephantmag.com/home"><span style="font-style: italic;">Elephant: The Art and Visual Culture Magazine</span></a>. I haven't had a lot of time to go through it and point out all of the reasons why I like it (so don't ask Christine), but I wanted to share it with you all. It's quarterly, and the issue on the stands now is only the third issue; the first came out this past November. Subscriptions are available in print or digitally...it's very cool.Michele Kishitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08120922008763158000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-74911536347572930822010-07-25T18:50:00.000-04:002010-07-25T18:52:16.901-04:00<h1> Toward a Gay Criticism </h1>Jacob Stockinger<br /> <cite><a href="http://0-www.jstor.org.catalog.library.uarts.edu/action/showPublication?journalCode=collegeenglish">College English</a></cite>, Vol. 36, No. 3, The Homosexual Imagination (Nov., 1974), pp. 303-311<br />Published by: <a href="http://0-www.jstor.org.catalog.library.uarts.edu/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ncte">National Council of Teachers of English</a><br />Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/374841Jcohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172005545883019890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940113431878925173.post-77232387361508654072010-07-24T22:21:00.002-04:002010-07-24T22:32:54.349-04:00Review: Vox VI<a href="http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/art/Vox-VI.html">http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/art/Vox-VI.html</a><div>Worth reading. Who has seen this? I've been meaning to get there. </div><div><br /></div><div>Also by Roberta Fallon in a recent Philadelphia Weekly: Review of our friend Tim Ead's show at FLUX Space.</div><div><a href="http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/art/A-Legitimate-Waste-of-Time.html">http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/art/A-Legitimate-Waste-of-Time.html</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08562152076148388231noreply@blogger.com4