Posts Tagged ‘ collage ’
Dora Maar, “Assia” (1934) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)
The Centre Pompidou’s Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.
Joe Brainard, “Untitled (Hard Body)” (1977), mixed media on paper, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
One reason Joe Brainard made so many small works was to convey that modesty and ambition were not mutually exclusive.
Terror with Theresa May Turning Her Back on Europe
. . . the philosopher Hannah Arendt analyzed precisely this in an interview with Roger Errera in 1974: If people are constantly lied to, the result isn’t that they believe the lies, but rather that no one believes anything at all anymore. (…) And a people that can no longer believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act, but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
Letting You in on a Secret is an eloquent artistic inquiry into present-day politics, the media, and contemporary life — one that takes the form of a visual essay operating within the disturbance pattern of a subtle but crucial shift in medium…
Source: Letting You In on a Secret: Alyssa DeLuccia’s Photographed Collages | 3 Quarks Daily