Washington Square Park, New York City, 2010 |
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11.2.11
Washington Square Park
Labels:
new york city,
photography,
washinton square park

10.2.11
Aesthetic Thursdays: Dionysos Holds a Theater Mask
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Terra-Cotta Mixing Bowl, Dionysos and Young Pan, 410-390 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Dionysos holds a mask. Masks were used by actors on stage to personate the roles they played. In this piece, Dionysos appears to hold a mask of himself. The mask he holds is identical to the artistic representation of his face. Dionysos wears the person of the character he personates. His mask is his person. To personate means to wear the person of someone. Person derives from the Greek word for "mask." To personate is to wear a mask. Personation is the act of personating. In an obsolete usage, a personation is also the mask itself. So we could say that Dionysos holds his own personation.
Labels:
aesthetics,
art,
greeks,
museum,
thursday

8.2.11
Stanley Cavell on the Aesthetic Autonomy of the Photographic Image
"Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, a way that could not satisfy painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the task of reproduction."
Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed
Source: Cavell, Stanley. The World Viewed : Reflections on the Ontology of Film. New York: Viking Press, 1971. Print.
Labels:
aesthetics,
art,
Art & Music,
philosopher,
philosophy of art,
photograph,
quotation,
quote,
subjectivity,
taste

7.2.11
View from the K-Mart Adjacent to the Astor Place Subway Station (6 Train)
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View from K-Mart (6 train), New York City, 2011 |
Labels:
6 train,
k-mart,
new york city,
new york city subway,
subway platform

4.2.11
30 Ways to say "Sheep Skin"
Thanks to a tag on a sheepskin rug sold at Ikea in Hicksville, New York, one can easily learn to say "peau de mouton" in thirty languages.
"Sheep Skin" in 30 Languages |
Labels:
animal rights,
commercial,
ikea,
language,
Reposts,
world

3.2.11
Aesthetic Thursdays: Tony Feher

Art is fixated on its medium. Tony Feher has draped the walls and floor of the Pace Gallery in Chelsea with vinyl tubes filled with food coloring. Typical of contemporary art, Feher eschews traditional media and instead uses cheaply bought vinyl tubing and dye. Is it art? Well, if art is what is deemed sacred: no one stepped on the tubes during my recent visit. The Next On Line Exhibit runs till February 12th.
Labels:
aesthetics,
art,
thursday

2.2.11
Two Photographs Taken From In And Around Long Island City in the Borough of Queens
Labels:
Art & Music,
bridgeview,
lovequeens,
new york city,
photographs,
Queens,
Taxi

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