Thomas Anshutz, The Ironworkers' Noontime, 1880 Sarah Stolfa was a bartender at McGlinchey’s. Photographing its regulars, she published a book that established her as an artist. Zoe Strauss was given a camera, so she photographed her neighbors in Pennsport, before foraying into Olde Richmond, East Kensington and Kensington, etc. Having no gallery, she taped her images onto the pillars of I-95 for her annual shows. In 2012, the Philadelphia Museum of Art staged
I liked the picture, Ironworkers, being working class I know this is not the way looked
or rather my forebearers. My mother worked in a fish factory she had an hour off for lunch
and hurried home to set potatoes to boil, and when they did, she turned off the gas and wrapped the casserole so the potatoes were ready in the evening, she had a hard life
Steelworkers at Noon comes across to this boomer as soft homo-erotica w/ a muted suggestion of after-hours pedophilia. I think that subtext is what offended an earlier sensibility, not its vaunted muck-raking effrontery.
The inversion of knowledge-seeking in our age of Judeo-Babylonian captivity is sad but evident. From lowest to highest ranks, jobless to millionaire. Has there ever been a more cowardly, pitiful society? Not in America I think. That's why I'm not repelled by Bo Bartlett's apparently satirical pick-up truck Americana: still a glimmer of red-neck defiance and devotion.
I'm happy w/ the self-sequestering of artists' overtly homosexual memes. My grand scheme for civic engineering of art would be main street (G and PG) side street (R) back street (X). Your closet will not be raided unless you transgress.
I learned a great deal from this content, and am grateful for it. That any one person can be so globally peripatetic and astoundingly eclectic, in such depth and detail, deeply impresses me. I think you remember more than this reader will ever know to forget. Thank you.
Nice, wide-ranging retrospective, Linh. Good stuff, except for this: "Who cares, though, what outsiders think, least of all some sweating bum in Vung Tau with his coconut?" Knock that shit off, Linh! WE care. As for homosexuality, we all know that many have created, built and advanced much in various civilizations (Alan Turning in particular comes to mind). But then so have alcoholics, autists and drug addicts. Circumspection, as with Grant Wood, is a feature, not a bug.
I liked the picture, Ironworkers, being working class I know this is not the way looked
or rather my forebearers. My mother worked in a fish factory she had an hour off for lunch
and hurried home to set potatoes to boil, and when they did, she turned off the gas and wrapped the casserole so the potatoes were ready in the evening, she had a hard life
Steelworkers at Noon comes across to this boomer as soft homo-erotica w/ a muted suggestion of after-hours pedophilia. I think that subtext is what offended an earlier sensibility, not its vaunted muck-raking effrontery.
The inversion of knowledge-seeking in our age of Judeo-Babylonian captivity is sad but evident. From lowest to highest ranks, jobless to millionaire. Has there ever been a more cowardly, pitiful society? Not in America I think. That's why I'm not repelled by Bo Bartlett's apparently satirical pick-up truck Americana: still a glimmer of red-neck defiance and devotion.
I'm happy w/ the self-sequestering of artists' overtly homosexual memes. My grand scheme for civic engineering of art would be main street (G and PG) side street (R) back street (X). Your closet will not be raided unless you transgress.
I learned a great deal from this content, and am grateful for it. That any one person can be so globally peripatetic and astoundingly eclectic, in such depth and detail, deeply impresses me. I think you remember more than this reader will ever know to forget. Thank you.
"You will see great art and you will shit on it"
- Cabaret Voltaire
Nice, wide-ranging retrospective, Linh. Good stuff, except for this: "Who cares, though, what outsiders think, least of all some sweating bum in Vung Tau with his coconut?" Knock that shit off, Linh! WE care. As for homosexuality, we all know that many have created, built and advanced much in various civilizations (Alan Turning in particular comes to mind). But then so have alcoholics, autists and drug addicts. Circumspection, as with Grant Wood, is a feature, not a bug.
did you forget andrew wyeth?