March 2011
“There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them...”
– Antonin Artaud, General Security: The Liquidation of Opium
“I seek and don’t find myself.
I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up...”
– Fernando Pessoa
“I’ve been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.”
– Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Q & A
I’ve been looking up a lot of Surrealist art recently, and I was just wondering if you folks pick up on the subtle (and often not-so subtle!) misogynistic undertones to a lot of their work? Do you have an opinion on it at all? (I find myself in two minds about it personally- I do really enjoy a lot of surrealist art, but can’t help but notice the blatant objectification of...
The analysis is a jip is a trap is a job is a privilege is a luxury is a duty is a duty towards myself my husband my parents my children my is a shame...
LANGUAGE TO BE LOOKED AT AND/OR THINGS TO BE READ
“Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. The power of a word lies in the very inadequacy of the context it is placed, in the unresolved or partially resolved tension of disparates. A word fixed or a statement isolated without any decorative or ‘cubist’ visual format, becomes a perception of similarity...
“The premenstrual tension shows – withdrawal
self degradation,...”
– Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed
