Entries Tagged 'In Perspective' ↓

Is beauty a defense in the art of war? And may it be achieved through just four actions: selection, surface treatment, re-orientation, and context? See here.

Alas! you just missed it… This exhibition at the Kunsthaus Wien is worth looking into, despite the warning that “KUNST HAUS WIEN recommends that highly sensitive persons do not visit the exhibition.” Of course all TransitLane readers fall into that category… Read more here

Is a great new expression! Listen to Shevonne Hunt’s Background Briefing on the ABC.

See this discussion on ArtDaily

… sometimes discretion is the better part of valour. Or, read Germaine doing what my Dad used to call “catching flies”.

Tags: Wynn Prize, appropriation, cross-cultural, trans-historical, Dutch landscape, Italianate, etc.

thanks to Breakfastpolitics for the lead to this interview... And there’s a prize if anyone can find a decent image of the works being discussed. The Hara Museum ARC link has a PR download, but the images are tiny… Great website, but… Mind you, she has a particularly singular view of capital M Modernism:

“It depends on what meaning we ascribe to Modernism. I would say the base concept behind Modernism is still perspective, which is why I used the Classical Greek form of the body as a departure point in “Cyborg” and “Anagrams,” because that kind of humanism contains perspective. But my current sculptures don’t have any perspective. Even if it looks like they do, there are mirrors and other reflective surfaces that distort everything into a twist on traditional perspective.”

read Chris McAuliffe, Director, Ian Potter Gallery, on the Wynn Prize controversy…

Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day for Monday was… neologism. This blog has effect!

Ever wonder where this equation started to go crazy? Fred Kaplan in the NYT writes about the Scull collection.

See the link at iconophilia…