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Yet it also epitomized Bacon’s astonishing description of what a painting should be: “a snail leaving a trail of the human presence”
Crucifixion radiates what Deleuze called “cosmic dissipation”
Remarkably, despite a description of sex between women in the first poem, the book was never legally challenged; the passage seems explicit now, but at a time when lesbianism was virtually invisible in American culture, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice may not have understood its imagery.[11] Others were not as naïve, and Bruno was able to cash in on the book’s reputation by...
Most of us read Vogue not with the intention of buying the wildly expensive clothes, but because doing so educates our eye and hones our taste, similar to the way eating gourmet food refines the palate. This is a pleasure enabled by Wintour’s ruthless aesthetic, her refusal to participate in the democratizing tendency of most of her competitors. To deny her that privilege is to deny her...
In his later years, he developed a greater awareness of his Jewish heritage, which found expression in his works, with reference to the Holocaust and influences from Jewish writers such as Kafka and Walter Benjamin, and he came to consider himself to be a “wandering Jew”. In 1989, Kitaj published “First Diasporist Manifesto”, a short book in which he analysed his own...
“an outburst from a gypsy violin.”
“The Diasporist lives and paints in two or more societies at once.” And he added: “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Diasporist.”
RB Kitaj
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