tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post4036117565829005931..comments2023-06-10T07:41:43.276-04:00Comments on VS. THE POMEGRANATE: Jumping The Gun: Responding to Challenging Artworks (featuring Terrorist Balloons!)Joseph Shahadihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563551051906038151noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-2893079867692498852009-07-29T15:02:31.109-04:002009-07-29T15:02:31.109-04:00Joseph: great post. Yes, I think that it's p...Joseph: great post. Yes, I think that it's possible to admire something you simultaneously find insulting. In fact, I would say that's one of the features of art that makes it valuable and necessary to human expression. My forte is literature, not visual art, but off the top of my head: anything by Naipal; Heart of Darkness; A Passage to India; Huckleberry Finn; The Plague and The Stranger (though I do think Camus is hopelessly overrated)...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09593926944949091390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-33860584036084602702009-07-28T23:23:38.753-04:002009-07-28T23:23:38.753-04:00Up way too late now to be bright-eyed or bushy-tai...Up way too late now to be bright-eyed or bushy-tailed for tomorrow. But - yes, you can admire a thing that is, in fact, insulting. The balloons, in light of certain realities, are disrespectfully glib.<br /><br />But hey...like I said before. Just a rogue wordsmith.<br />;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-14132344435929849172009-07-28T22:58:21.276-04:002009-07-28T22:58:21.276-04:00Hm. I think "rogue wordsmith" may be ano...Hm. I think "rogue wordsmith" may be another way to say "artist", but I getcha. Yes, I think the Tuma piece is incredibly sad. I saw it in person, and it was almost more abstract up close, if that makes sense. The garments are very, very long and the exaggerated scale almost makes you dizzy. Its funny, the "Made in Palestine" show it was in featured work from at least a dozen other artists and even though they all shared the same sad topic--Palestine--some were too literal to really move me. The reason this worked for me is because of what you described, that "Oh no" feeling. <br /><br />As for Nanca's Terrorist Balloons, I am still not sure what to think about it. Is it possible to admire something and also find it kind of insulting?Joseph Shahadihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563551051906038151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414859680777728593.post-69636577676245824392009-07-28T22:42:06.489-04:002009-07-28T22:42:06.489-04:00*ahem*
Non-artist/psuedo-scholar/rogue wordsmith ...*ahem*<br /><br />Non-artist/psuedo-scholar/rogue wordsmith taking a crack at it.<br /><br />"Homes for the Disembodied" gave me the strong and immediate impression of a funeral procession. It invokes that same feeling of spectatorial grief. That whole, "Oh, no! Who died?" I get when I see a hearst and limos in my neighborhood. (And in this case the answer is "So many.") I didn't understand what I was looking at right away, but I "knew" - in the rawest of senses - that it was profoundly sad, and in all likelihood tragic. I teared up and everything....buuuuuut to be fair, that's just kinda what I do when something moves and/or touches me. High art...those Alpo commercials with the shelter pooches...all that manipulative emo nonsense.<br /><br />Anyway. That is what I thought. <br /><br />But I very often miss the point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com