Well, just as the light was waning over West Texas last evening, the Marfa Girls were returning safely home from their reckless adventures in the sleepy, brushy, desert town of the same name. If you are not familiar with Marfa, it’s an amazing (I am told) once nearly “ghost town” turned artist colony, thanks to [...]
Tag Archives: Post-Modernism
13 Lady Photogs on One Hot Trip
Posted in A Sense of Place, Collage, Object Making, Objets trouvés, Odes to Joy Also tagged 1970's style, adventure, artist colonies, birdcages, blue, bohemian style, Brooke Schwab, Chinati Foundation, documentary photography, Donald Judd, exhibitions, family photographers, fun, happiness, installation art, Jesse Chamberlin, joy, Man and Nature, Marfa, Marfa Girls, minimalism, Modern, Modernism, Mystery Lights of Marfa, natural light photography, photographers, post-industrial, road food, road trips, Sarah Rhoads, sculpture, sky, Southern Gothic, tarantulas, Texas, the desert, truck food, typefaces and fonts, vernacular design, wedding photographers, women artists, women photographers, young artists 2 Comments
The Collages of John Ashbery
These were a welcome revelation to me – the collages of American poet John Ashbery – for their economy of images and the deftness of their poetics. So much of collage is grating, hard on the senses and purposely obfuscating – though it is frequently worth it, when it reaches something we can only know [...]
Posted in Collage, Objets d'art, Paper Also tagged "Shock of the New", "trash", 1970's New York, art criticism, beau gestes, brevity, civility, Collage, comic book art, composition, cultural criticism, glamour, haiku, jet clarity, John Ashbery, Modernism, play, poetry, poets, restraint, Robert Hughes, sentimentality, Tibor de Nagy, Victoriana, whimsy, William Shakespeare, wit Leave a comment


