Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
FREE CITY
Hannan kept in mind the underlying meanings in each detail, from the dirty Pumas the character Laser wears to the Free City T-shirt worn by Julianne Moore’s character, Jules.
“Free City … is owned by a lesbian woman … (and) is a very strong item for lesbian women,” Hannan said. “If you were a gay woman, you’d know. But if you’re not, you’d just say, ‘Oh, she looks cute.’ And that was the point.”
Free City in the movie "The Kids Are Alright".....from afterellen.com
Saturday, February 5, 2011
FAILE
Art group I read about in High Fructose magazine. They do stencils and installations all over the world. "Temple" in Portugal, Tibetan prayer wheels all over Brooklyn
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Queer Podcast
Bad at Sports podcast "Queer," Gregg Bordowitz and David Getsy, from SAIC
Notes:
-Catherine Opie- photographer
-what does it feel to be queer? (in art) doesn't feel like Mapplethorpe anymore.
-"all sexuality is queer sexuality"
-strategy of queer art is to destabilize, to make oneself strange to oneself
-how do we find a larger social formation in which we are not alienated from each other
-moments of queerness- moments of being told you are unnatural or not right
-Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Monday, January 31, 2011
New Drawings Blog
http://rebecca-lederman.tumblr.com/
This is a new blog for new drawings that can be show to potential employers.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
GRAPHIC WOMEN
I started reading Graphic Women by Hillary L. Chute and there is so much I want to write down....quotes, names, other books. So here is it.
Quotes:
"interpretation as a process of visualization" pg. 4
"Images in comics appear in fragments, just as they do in actual recollection; this fragmentation, in particular, is a prominent feature of traumatic memory." pg. 4
"The medium of comics compels because it is so capacious, offering layers of words and images- as well as multiple layers of possible temporalities- on each page. Comics conveys several possible tensions in its basic structure. The words and images entwine, but never synthesize. the frames- which we may understand as boxes of time- present a narrative, but that narrative is threaded through with absence, with the rich white spaces of what is called the gutter." pgs. 5-6
"...all five authors manifest an awareness of the lines of fiction and nonfiction as discursive and their blurring as productive; destabilize the coherence of the subject over time through the presence of visible adult narrators on pages that depict the same narrator in the past; and self-reflexivity call attention to the construction of their respective texts, presenting temporal layers of experience while refusing to reify 'experience' as the foundational precept of feminist critique." pg. 6
Names:
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Phoebe Gloeckner
Lynda Barry
Marjane Satrapi
Alison Bechdel
Scott McCloud- Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), Making Comics (2008)
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
New Books
Just Kids................................Patti Smith*
Graphic Women...................Hillary L. Chute
Stone Butch Blues................Leslie Feinberg*
My Red Blood.......................Alix Dobkin
To Teach................................William Ayers*
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