| Hermetic Duchamp? |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-31-11
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"Marcel Duchamp had exhibited found objects as art with his famous urinal. But Duchamp’s art is hermetic, introverted, it doesn’t go out to the viewer. Rauschenberg’s reflects his own personality: it’s extrovert, generous, non-judgmental.” -Ealan Wingate, co-cu
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| Surrealist Lab: Whose Unconscious? (Part 2) |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-30-11
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In a recent post, "With A Lunatic Gesture We Forsook Jujitsu" (Automatism A), I tried my hand at some automatic writing. This was a practice codified by the Surrealists under the direction of Andre Breton, but its provenance dates to long before that. Its purpose has depended on the histor
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| An Argument for Tactile Art |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-29-11
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"It is clear that the liberative importance of the tactile resides in the fact that it can only be decoded in terms of experience itself: it cannot be reduced to mere information, to representation or to the simple evocation of a simulacrum substituting for absent presences."
Kenneth Frampton (fr
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| Physics Comes to the Defense of Modern Art |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-28-11
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If Duchamp's "Standard Stoppages" lampooned the precise measuring systems of scientists, a Harvard mathematician is now doing something of the opposite for Jackson Pollack: rescuing him from the perception that abstract expressionists are just random paint-slingers.
Through a close data analysis
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