tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post3048320990808002579..comments2024-01-29T00:22:36.258-08:00Comments on e y e C O N T A C T: The ascent of the suppressedJohn Hurrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-65498842566795350422009-12-08T14:41:45.926-08:002009-12-08T14:41:45.926-08:00"In Parekowhai’s hands they take on the meani..."In Parekowhai’s hands they take on the meaning of political power too."<br /><br />I know it is just a turn of phrase Mr Hurrell but when was the last time Michael Parakowhai laid his own hands on an artwork? Isn't he famous for his technicians ability?<br /><br />So isn't the central critical question with this work:is the thinking of the design correctly pitched. Is it overthought underthought or just right.<br /><br />If you geddit is it underthought if impenetrable, overthought? and if you miss interpret alltogether, like you seem to have done is it just right or a failure?<br /><br />The elephant in the room could be the audience.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630489499400565913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-32713230321008352012009-12-07T22:06:25.309-08:002009-12-07T22:06:25.309-08:00Was it the lemons from the start?Was it the lemons from the start?JKWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02276905614199876005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-88379375998871519782009-12-07T17:01:33.696-08:002009-12-07T17:01:33.696-08:00As if insincere, self-conscious "art about ar...As if insincere, self-conscious "art about art" wasn't bad enough; now we have "art about writing about art"? "Art about art-history"?<br /><br />It's a new low.<br /><br />LOLcaptcha: fingisms.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-16061279549244601352009-12-07T16:46:17.797-08:002009-12-07T16:46:17.797-08:00it's a lemon tree my dear Watson.it's a lemon tree my dear Watson.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630489499400565913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-33229418896071851452009-12-07T13:43:17.306-08:002009-12-07T13:43:17.306-08:00Well Ben, my task would be a hell of a lot easier ...Well Ben, my task would be a hell of a lot easier if that were the case, but the work is loaded up with a highly evocative title, which according to the show's publicity poster, refers to a review of John Berger's book.<br />The title is designed to shower the sculpture with meaning, so that critics, theorists, and art historians come running. It's a standard artist strategy: build the work, then build the title. Then stand back and watch the fun.John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-44343417910004128102009-12-07T13:07:22.908-08:002009-12-07T13:07:22.908-08:00Nothing but a lemon treeNothing but a lemon treeBen Clementhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09722262367010751878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-40294514641657810822009-12-05T03:15:14.558-08:002009-12-05T03:15:14.558-08:00Thanks Deborah for that. Readers can past this url...Thanks Deborah for that. Readers can past this url into search and check it out.<br /><br />The Parekowhai show can be pondered over with the Berger and Wedgwood references being somehow connected...perhaps? In truth I'm not sure now about the extent of its focus. Be curious to hear some other opinions on this.John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-78781309343029254002009-12-04T16:06:50.729-08:002009-12-04T16:06:50.729-08:00Deborah Cain
On cubism and primitivism etc: you ca...Deborah Cain<br />On cubism and primitivism etc: you can listen to the first talk by Paul Wood on "Art & Globalisation" in the Tate Open University series, where he talks about the early 20th century avant-garde, see website [with video link] http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/studydays/globalisation/Deborah Cainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572029649853589013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-46698966811478062822009-12-03T16:05:53.000-08:002009-12-03T16:05:53.000-08:00tip: THE MOMENT OF CUBISM also is an essay by John...tip: THE MOMENT OF CUBISM also is an essay by John Berger from 1969.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-71552618281775967582009-12-03T16:02:33.701-08:002009-12-03T16:02:33.701-08:00Somebody has just told me of the thirties Wedgewoo...Somebody has just told me of the thirties Wedgewood series of porcelain animal bookends, so my theory above turns to custard.<br /><br />Any readers an authority on Wedgewood?John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-22403269587108299252009-12-03T02:04:30.685-08:002009-12-03T02:04:30.685-08:00Could be. Cubism is about simultaniety (multiple v...Could be. Cubism is about simultaniety (multiple viewpoints at the same instant)- as opposed to say Futurism which is more about movement.John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-89595326325877169452009-12-03T00:56:12.464-08:002009-12-03T00:56:12.464-08:00Thank you, yes, but is "The Moment Of Cubism&...Thank you, yes, but is "The Moment Of Cubism" a pun of sort sort?s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-22008466573880331842009-12-02T23:12:09.535-08:002009-12-02T23:12:09.535-08:00Let me stress the above reading of the M.P. show i...Let me stress the above reading of the M.P. show is my interpretation only. Others may think I've got it utterly wrong. I'm speculating. (As I often do.)<br /><br />To very briefly elaborate,Picasso and Braque referenced various central African (and Egyptian) masks and statues in their early explorative cubism (esp. 1906-8) and for some people it is a highly sensitive issue because no permission or dialogue was involved - seemingly much like Gordon Walters' use of the koru in this country. Therefore lemon trees without bitter lemons can be read as a form of denial, a symbol for some unacknowledged grievance - especially in a show also having references to carved African animals that have been enlarged and made white, and the exhibition's very specific title.<br /><br />The McEvilley essay on MOMA's Primitivism show is a great read on this topic, in November 1984's artforum, as are also Rubin's and Varnedoe's responses in Feb 1985.<br /><br />Didn't know about that song you mention, though I do follow Tom Waits quite closely. A version of Que Sera,Sera...perhaps?John Hurrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07411877334096071312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-29891489676239940512009-12-02T21:43:30.484-08:002009-12-02T21:43:30.484-08:00Oh, also, can you expound and elaborate on how Par...Oh, also, can you expound and elaborate on how Parekowhai’s "oblique but clever title" refers to the fraught relationship between early modernism (particularly cubism) and various ‘primitive’ African cultures that influenced it?s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5265813806993497215.post-82207480644523449142009-12-02T21:39:11.465-08:002009-12-02T21:39:11.465-08:00I wonder if "The World Keeps Turning" re...I wonder if "The World Keeps Turning" refers to the common proverb which more-or-less means "bad stuff happens to you, and me, and everyone, but the world still keeps turning and none of it matters in the end" [sic]; a convoluted way of saying "shit happens".<br /><br />It's also a song variously by Napalm Death, Tom Waits, and Fleetwood Mac.<br /><br />Guess I'll give this one a miss though -- I'm afraid the very idea of "post-colonial critique of modernist gallery architecture and its attendant art history" makes something inside me want to shrivel up and die with embarrassment.<br /><br />-s.clover/.s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.com