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”Movement is unpremeditated being; it is the uncritical expression of life. As we begin to meditate we begin to stop living. . . First comes life; and if we meditate prematurely, if we lend to physical things a critical self-consciousness, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, Allen Ginsberg, Claes Oldenberg, Dennis Oppenheim, Donald judd, Dylan Thomas, Ethan Coen, Georgia O'keefe, Ingar Dragset, Jackson Pollock, Jean Tinguely, Joel and Ethan, Joel Coen, John Chamberlain, John Constable, Laura Riding, Len Lye, Max Ernst, Michael Elmgreen, miro, No Country for old men film, Picasso, public art, Robert Graves, roger horrocks, W.H. Auden, Wind Wand
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Clever Structural Critiques ( part b )
In (part A) we saw some of what Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have been doing artistically to shake and shape the customary meanings we associate with spatial relationships. Their intention is to create room for new and different interpretations … Continue reading
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Tagged Drama Queens, Ingar Dragset, Mark Jenkins, Michael Elmgreen, Prada Marfa, The Collectors, Welfare Show
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Structural Critique and Playful Deception ( part a )
Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are Berlin based artists specializing in land-art works and installations. They have treated nature as part of a cultural iconography and part of a socio-economic capitalist system in the Western world. Its a form of … Continue reading