Art in Theory
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Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas is an art theory anthology edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, first published in 1992.
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Impressions by Jahsonic
The Shoe of a dead woman
In the entry for aesthete at Georges Bataille's Critical Dictionary published in installments in the journal Documents one finds the following sentence:
- "When it comes down to it, these words have the power to disturb and to nauseate: after fifteen years, one finds the shoe of a dead woman at the bottom of a cupboard; one throws it in the rubbish bin" (translation by Art in Theory).
"One single text" by Bataille
Barthes in the From Work To Text on Georges Bataille:
- "How do you classify a writer like Georges Bataille? Novelist, poet, essayist, economist, philosopher, mystic? The answer is so difficult that the literary manuals generally prefer to forget about Bataille who, in fact, wrote texts, perhaps continuously 'one single text'."
This reminds me of Richard Simmillion, a recurring character in W. F. Hermans's novels and stories. Hermans is also an author who wrote one single text.
On Rosalind Krauss
I was disappointed by Rosalind Krauss's treatise on The Originality of the Avant-Garde, an essay I had discovered in the mid-1990s when I first gained access to "the net" and read here for the first time. She uses the grid as metaphor.
On Bachelard
"Facts long amassed, patiently juxtaposed, avariciously preserved, are suspect. they bear the stigma of prudence, of conformism, of constancy, of slowness," writes Gaston Bachelard. --via ON INVENTING OUR OWN ART by Ibram Lassaw
Bachelard is also mentioned by Barthes in Mythologies.
- "But since Saussure himself, and sometimes independently of him, a whole section of contemporary research has constantly been referred to the problem of meaning: psycho-analysis, structuralism, eidetic psychology, some new types of literary criticism of which Bachelard has given the first examples, are no longer concerned with facts except inasmuch as they are endowed with significance. Now to postulate a signification is to have recourse to semiology. I do not mean that semiology could account for all these aspects of research equally well: they have different contents. But they have a common status: they are all sciences dealing with values. They are not content with meeting the facts: they define and explore them as tokens for something else."
Bachelard is also mentioned by Yves Klein in a Sorbonne lecture.
- "I unhappily did not have the pleasure of discovering the writings of Gaston Bachelard till very late, only last year in the month of April 1958."
