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There are artworks that seem less of their time than of ours. To us, it is as though they transcended the difference. Still, only our narcissism makes us call them timeless[ READ MORE ]
Following an unwritten rule critics must take into account their position vis a vis the cultural objects they write about. Today this often means telling a story about a personal interaction with it. “When I first read Huck Fin…” “In Rome I saw Titian’s portrait of…” The first person pronoun is the minimum of reflection [ READ MORE ]
It is the serial killer’s responsibility to exceed in beauty every attempt by the cops or the psychologists to apprehend him, and it is always a him. He is an aesthete who, whether his victims are skinned, decapitated, defenestrated, dismembered, skewered, raped, or stewed, always admires them for their appearance, with an utterly uncultured, almost [ READ MORE ]
Critique traces an idea that shimmers, barely perceptible, in an artwork. Critics may accomplish this skoteinoscopy by making a correspondence between the artwork and one of several simulacra. They either relate it to a complex of commitments and fantasies called the “artist” or show the work’s inner relation to an intractable philosophical question; a certain [ READ MORE ]
