December 2010
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“Dear Friends and readers, The New Freewoman has no cause. The nearest approach...”
– Dora Marsden, 1913 in The New Freewoman magazine (1.2:25)
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“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our...”
– Marcel Proust (via monpersonnelsamizdat)
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“One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the...”
– Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man”
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“When, before leaving the church, as I stood up, a bittersweet scent of almonds...”
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way.
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“I am not the first author of the narrative titled “The Library of...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, in the Prologue to The Garden of Forking Paths.
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“First, the notion of the work. It is said (and it is still a very familiar...”
– Michel Foucault “What is an Author?”
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“Recognizes no taboos.”
– 1914 manifesto of the English little magazine The Egoist, Edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver.
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Questions Without Answers for John Baldessari (by...
I have always felt a deeply humanistic undertone in your work, despite its use of irony and obliqueness. But I am hard pressed to account for why I feel it and sometimes think it’s because I have known you for a long time. Where do you think it resides?
Is a Conceptual artist different from any other kind of artist?
A lot of ink has been spilled about art as the new religion, with the...
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“I was saddened by the loss of my strip of pink sky, when I caught sight of it...”
– Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (via charlottecollection)