tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post508632053597064854..comments2023-11-22T06:38:33.507-08:00Comments on Counterforces and Other Little Jokes: notes on making sense of Zhang Dalilittlejokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01036588703338799387noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-40215799127904240162008-10-23T07:01:00.000-07:002008-10-23T07:01:00.000-07:00The ArtVoices in question came out right after I w...The ArtVoices in question came out right after I wrote my "review" over on GM. I've had a chance to revise myself (hopefully at least in terms of logical construction) in a review that, sadly, comes out next month's issue. <BR/><BR/>Print is funny like that huh? <BR/><BR/>This was good, Jerry. Really.Jeremy Abernathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15954116305822347834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-41864353705891156382008-10-22T11:24:00.000-07:002008-10-22T11:24:00.000-07:00"We forget how little the world in general knows a...<I>"We forget how little the world in general knows about things we consider commonplace.</I><BR/><BR/>you got that right!<BR/><BR/>sometimes i can call myself a poet & the poetry-world is an even more unknown realm to most folks than is the art-world, try talking about how "flarf undermined the academic canon via populist avant-gardism" & watch people flee like villagers from Frankenstein!<BR/><BR/>oh, i could say " FrankenGstein ", most people know Gertrude Stein don't they?<BR/><BR/>there was another photo inwhich depicted a Chinese artist who'd emblazoned the Coca-Cola logo across an antique vase of some-important-dynasty-of-which-i-forget, but i liked the ballsiness of the gesture & i'm sure it pissed off some of the more purist antiquity fetishists!troylloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706450196335510065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-57211727507512316872008-10-20T08:59:00.000-07:002008-10-20T08:59:00.000-07:00So was the transformation of Soviet era posters in...So was the transformation of Soviet era posters into Coca-Cola advertising, by a Russian artist whose name I no longer remember.<BR/><BR/>But actually, there are a lot of Atlantans who would recognize Chairman Mao (maybe) but ask why the cadres were looking at a piece of bathroom equipment. "Uh, is this, like, a joke on Communism going down the toilet?" is the remark I can imagine certain people making.<BR/><BR/>We forget how little the world in general knows about things we consider commonplace. But I love the image and am extremely happy you posted this.littlejokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01036588703338799387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5917543335925664834.post-51313799145512487752008-10-19T21:50:00.000-07:002008-10-19T21:50:00.000-07:00at least something like this is easier to contextu...at least something like this is easier to contextualize:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.mutanteggplant.com/vitro-nasu/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/duchampmao.jpg" REL="nofollow">Shi Xhinning</A><BR/><BR/>- - - - - -troylloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14706450196335510065noreply@blogger.com