The Emperor Has No Clothes
September 22, 2007
Sorry, but it was barely clever the first time around, all those years ago… there is nothing profound about it today. It’s essentially the stuff of the philosophy or literature graduate student who has nothing to say, but they of course say it at length anyway.
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All me-stream all the time.
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September 24th, 2007 at 7:22 am
i love the expansive spaces
in white as milk
and the unassailable logic of the grob
Just because the topic has been done to death and poorly at that doesn’t meant it lacks all value. There will be some every year who have their first introduction to impermanence and emptying their cup by way of this tired old chestnut.
September 24th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Someday I will have time to change this blog around… but until then… Content is King, right! The MySpace generation doesn’t care about design…
September 24th, 2007 at 7:33 am
And I agree that 4′ 33″ — like the white on white canvases of the 60s– will be new to some people and valuable. But that video is stuffed to the gills with pretentious ponces diverging from their smug, self-satisfied smiles only to pat themselves on the back for their hipness.
September 25th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Heh. Couldn’t make it through the video; had a private performance here at home instead.
Part of the deal, I think, is kind of like math, except that where math can arguably be structured in a linear fashion, one lesson resting on the foundation of the next, there’s more room in the arts for encountering things in a different order. There’s folks who read Shirley Jackson and Camus in High School and as a result are quite bored with over-wrought ironies and existentialism. There’s folks who don’t discover “less is more” or “context is king” until middle age and it is revelatory for them…much to the annoyance of folks who’ve been there done that 20 years earlier. But in all such cases there’s a flavor of “and from here it’s obvious,” the favorite mistake of the math teacher who has forgotten just how un-obvious even two-plus-two is for one who hasn’t mastered the learnings so completely as to mistake those learnings for self-evident facts.