J’adore JD’s decoupage trays for wall hanging from the “Relationship Series.” The typewritten trays are witty and demure, with the loose, handwritten script variety a blast of ballsy good humor à la Mame. I’ll take the lot, as a tribute to my little clung-to trinkets and larger than life ego. Get your own at John [...]
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…and speaking of John Derian
Posted in Collage, Le Deco, Objets d'art, Objets trouvés, Paper Also tagged "Auntie Mame", "Relationship Series", decoupage, ephemera, found objects, glass, handwritten script, humor, John Derian, Manhattan, New York City, old and new, Paper, reproductions, Romantism, trays, typewriting, vintage style Leave a comment
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, Post-Modernism, restraint, Robert Hughes, sentimentality, Tibor de Nagy, Victoriana, whimsy, William Shakespeare Leave a comment


