tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post4438244259548417113..comments2024-02-04T03:57:19.271+01:00Comments on Zenobia: Empress of the East: Zenobia Survives!Judith Weingartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06683483030413488309noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-16217161712197883012010-08-27T22:00:46.405+02:002010-08-27T22:00:46.405+02:00pretty cool stuff here thank you!!!!!!!pretty cool stuff here thank you!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-88595310822483276222008-09-01T01:31:00.000+02:002008-09-01T01:31:00.000+02:00"her troupe of dwarves and hunchbacks, dancing in ..."her troupe of dwarves and hunchbacks, dancing in the candlelight" - wow. Just... wow.The Ridger, FCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01538111197270563075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-67852279401171612992008-08-31T11:43:00.000+02:002008-08-31T11:43:00.000+02:00In my experience, artists make whatever they want ...In my experience, artists make whatever they want to make ... and thrash about looking for 'sexy' titles just before the exhibition. <BR/><BR/>Then some critic writes that they have "transcended the superficial 'actuality' of the object" (or the subject) so we know that it's art. <BR/><BR/>Richard, I wouldn't dream of describing the totems as phallic. :-)Judith Weingartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06683483030413488309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-36774382920312341562008-08-29T20:44:00.000+02:002008-08-29T20:44:00.000+02:00Artists are always doing this, mixing their period...<I>Artists are always doing this, mixing their periods, and picking and choosing subjects by whim, or the sound of their names.</I><BR/><BR/>Who knows what the artist's frame of reference is, or whether they're even referring to the "original" 5 queens? Barthes' <I>deah of the author</I> was greeted with massive enthusiasm by the art world, I think because it can be used to add mystique while sidestepping questions of authorial intention. <BR/>As for the curator, maybe it was the physical form of the pieces that got her all flushed: the verticality, the horns; the delicate intimation that there might be something to figure out.richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-20412211021885249302008-08-28T19:29:00.000+02:002008-08-28T19:29:00.000+02:00I almost exclaimed "My goodness!" at these stories...I almost exclaimed "My goodness!" at these stories but stopped myself for fear of having to stop and self-analyze.<BR/><BR/>One really does not know whether to laugh or to cry at these tales. <BR/><BR/>Admittedly mostly I laughed. One might even say guffawed.<BR/><BR/>Great post. :)<BR/>KarenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com