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DON’T HATE ME HATE MY

November 13, 2014 by William Eaton

  This past summer an art exhibit or spectacle at Paris’s official hip museum, le Palais de Tokyo, offered, among many other things, incomplete slogans, handwritten with black markers on cardboard. Among the dozens of these, most of which are in French, I noted and translated these: NOUS SOMMES LES OUBLÉS DE I.E.: WE ARE THE FORGOTTEN OF PAS DE DÉMOCRATIE SANS NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT JE NE VEUX PAS D’AVENIR JE VEUX UN I DON’T WANT A FUTURE I WANT A LE PARTAGE SAUVERA […]

Categories: ZiLL • Tags: art, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, politics, Thomas Hirschorn

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Wayne Thiebaud at 94

October 23, 2014 by William Eaton

There are times when old age produces not eternal youth but a sovereign freedom, a pure necessity in which one enjoys a moment of grace between life and death, and in which all the parts of the machine come together to send into the future a feature that cuts across all ages: Titian, Turner, Monet.  Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari There is reason to celebrate artist Wayne Thiebaud, now in his 94th year and in the 7th decade of his painting […]

Categories: Gayle Rodda Kurtz, ZiR • Tags: art

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Fifty thousand spiders in a pot

October 19, 2014 by William Eaton

    In The French Generation of 1820 Alan Spitzer writes, using an image from Balzac, of “hungry young provincials competing in the Paris arena like fifty thousand spiders in a pot . . . all tortured by the discrepancy between boundless ambition and constricted opportunity.” He quotes a translation of le Comte de Rambuteau’s warning to Louis Philippe — that the French King should beware of: the déclassés, the doctors without patients, the architects without buildings, the journalists without journals, the […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, Balzac, Bourdieu, employment, France, Freud, pastry, revolution

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A Reminder

October 12, 2014 by William Eaton

  Johannes Vermeer died in 1675. In the 1860s, when the French writer Théophile Thoré began publishing essays about Vermeer’s work— few connoisseurs outside Holland had heard of the artist’s name. Indeed, even in Holland it was possible, during that period, for great works by Vermeer to go completely unrecognized: in 1881, the collector A.A. des Tombe purchased perhaps Vermeer’s most iconic painting, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, for all of 2½ guilders at a small auction in The Hague. The quotation is […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, Donald Judd, Jenny Holzer, Lisbon, theater, Vermeer

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“There is nothing remotely objective about photography”

July 27, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link] (1) The quotation of the title, the photograph at right, and the words below are from Object Lessons, an article by the photojournalist Nina Berman, who also teaches at the Columbia University Journalism School.  The article caught my eye because it features some powerful images and also because, concurrently, I was reading an intriguing Zeteo submission about how news stories fit within long-long-standing narrative traditions (e.g. of parables or moral tales). That said, I turn you over to Professor Berman, from the […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: Africa, art, corporations, crime, journalism, photography, women

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Changing the plot: victims of incest

June 30, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

For those of us who grew up with the Disney characters, artist Saint Hoax’s “Princest Diaries” series might be extremely off-putting. In an effort to create sexual assault awareness (or else, to re-write history based on visual lies), the Middle Eastern artist shows Disney’s princesses being forced to kiss their fathers. The disturbing images use the corruption of a somewhat common childhood fantasy—being a princess—to bring light to the true horror of domestic sexual abuse: a majority of child victims are assaulted by family […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: art, childhood, children, rape, sexuality

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On Nakedness and Awkwardness

June 29, 2014 by William Eaton

Toward the end of his seminal chapter on the objectification of women in European painting, in Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger discusses an exception to the rule: Rubens portrait of his second wife, Hélène Fourment: We see her in the act of turning, her fur about to slip off her shoulders. Clearly she will not remain as she is for more than a second. In a superficial sense her image is as instantaneous as a photograph’s. But, in a more […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, male gaze, narrative, Rubens, sexuality, women

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Playful children, miniature adults

May 26, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Childhood as a Modern Invention The Metropolitan Museum of Art is featuring an exhibition of Goya’s four portraits of members of the Altamira family. In walking through the exhibition’s small room last Friday, Goya’s paintings of the children and their accompanying labels reminded me of a book I read last year. In The Erosion of Childhood, Valerie Polakow examines the evolving meaning of childhood through time, using text and imagery to explore its changing value. In her early chapters, Polakow asks: Is childhood itself a social invention or is […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: art, childhood, children, gender, Goya, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Doing and Nothing

May 21, 2014 by William Eaton

An exploration of Song Dong’s Doing Nothing Garden and the possibility of renewing ourselves and our environment through not doing By Vanessa Badagliacca Click here for PDF Version.     I grew up hearing the recurring expression that if you—a general you—didn’t catch “the train” passing right at that moment you would miss it. You would lose your chance to do something, to meet someone, to experience something, to get something, to take the chance of a lifetime. Reflecting on […]

Categories: Article, Spring 2014 Issue • Tags: art, environmental philosophy, environmentalism, garden, Giorgio Agamben, landscape, LaoZi, philosophy

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