Skeletons and Madonnas Lead Mexico’s Graphic Arts Revolution
"Art has many purposes. But for the first 50,000 years of its life, it was meant to make you fertile, to ward off demons, to speak to the dead, to guide you through the afterlife, to protect cities, to make it rain, etc" - Jerry Saltz
The snapshot is meant to preserve not just an image but the moment of its taking; its intention is not documentary so much as memorial, and when we look at it we are remembering more than we are actually seeing.
Adam Kirsch • Emblems of the Passing World
In the hands of the Dadaists the work of art, from being a sight that seduced the eye or a sound that persuaded the ear, became a bullet. It flew towards the viewer, striking him down.
Walter Benjamin • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Penguin Great Ideas)
Sculpture, Both Botanical and Bestial, Awe at the Met Breuer (Published 2019)
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