tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59542405515390012992024-03-13T09:50:40.324-04:00Joann Harrah: Studio Sessionsjoannharrahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04345826302528292617noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954240551539001299.post-73555270525459398212020-08-18T14:50:00.008-04:002020-08-18T20:00:02.170-04:00Everyone Needs Feminism<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jmRnIxi1i_U/XzwgYIztotI/AAAAAAAAAxo/5-92Tx-7uMk6XNTQVxGGOEHykhqHs2iswCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MeredithStern.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1499" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jmRnIxi1i_U/XzwgYIztotI/AAAAAAAAAxo/5-92Tx-7uMk6XNTQVxGGOEHykhqHs2iswCLcBGAsYHQ/w468-h640/MeredithStern.jpg" title="Print by Meredith Stern" width="468" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Print by Meredith Stern</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: helvetica;">“White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or be oppressed. Black men may be victimized by racism, but sexism allows them to act as exploiters and oppressors of women. White women may be victimized by sexism, but racism enables them to act as exploiters and oppressors of black people. Both groups have led liberation movements that favor their interests and support the continued oppression of other groups. Black male sexism has undermined struggles to eradicate racism just as white female racism undermines feminist struggle. As long as these two groups, or any group, defines liberation as gaining social equality with ruling-class white men, they have a vested interest in the continued exploitation and oppression of others.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Being too warm the old lady said to me</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">is better than being too cold I think now</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">in between is the best because you never</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">give it a thought but it goes by too fast</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">I remember the winter how cold it got</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">I could never get warm wherever I was</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">but I don’t remember the summer heat like that</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">only the long days the breathing of the trees</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">the evenings with the hens still talking in the lane</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">and the light getting longer in the valley</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">the sound of a bell from down there somewhere</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">I can sit here now still listening to it</span></span><br />
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<br />joannharrahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04345826302528292617noreply@blogger.com0New York, NY40.7143528 -74.005973140.3291648 -74.65142010000001 41.0995408 -73.3605261tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954240551539001299.post-37833261420293154002014-02-18T01:06:00.000-05:002014-02-19T02:49:15.179-05:00David Altmejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I want to recommend going to see David Altmejd at Andrea Rosen Gallery before it closes on March 8. I've kept Altmejd's work on my radar for awhile. While this current exhibition, called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Juices</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">, is at once striking and "cool", giving it further thoughtful attention is illuminating and worthwhile.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The largest piece in the show is 11 feet tall and spans a space 21 x 24 ft. It's big. I'm glad I took my time studying the exhibition, because the longer I stayed and went back to look at different areas a second and third time, the more I was able to discern narrative connections within the piece. While Altmejd's craftsmanship is often raw and crude with reason (because life gets sloppy), the narrative is intricate and woven deeply.</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Irrational judgements lead to new experience.</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">If the artist changes his mind midway through the execution of the piece he compromises the result and repeats past results.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The artist's will is secondary to the process he initiates from idea to completion. His wilfulness may only be ego.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition, thus placing limitations on the artist who would be reluctant to make art that goes beyond the limitations.<a name='more'></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The concept and idea are different. The former implies a general direction while the latter is the component. Ideas implement the concept.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical order. They may set one off in unexpected directions, but an idea must necessarily be completed in the mind before the next one is formed.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the same concept.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Since no form is intrinsically superior to another, the artist may use any form, from an expression of words (written or spoken) to physical reality, equally.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">All ideas are art if they are concerned with art and fall within the conventions of art.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">One usually understands the art of the past by applying the convention of the present, thus misunderstanding the art of the past.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The conventions of art are altered by works of art.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The artist cannot imagine his art, and cannot perceive it until it is complete.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The artist may misperceive (understand it differently from the artist) a work of art but still be set off in his own chain of thought by that misconstrual.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Perception is subjective.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The artist may not necessarily understand his own art. His perception is neither better nor worse than that of others.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">An artist may perceive the art of others better than his own.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The concept of a work of art may involve the matter of the piece or the process in which it is made.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Once the idea of the piece is established in the artist's mind and the final form is decided, the process is carried out blindly. There are many side effects that the artist cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for new works.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The process is mechanical and should not be tampered with. It should run its course.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">There are many elements involved in a work of art. The most important are the most obvious.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist's concept involved the material.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">It is difficult to bungle a good idea.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">When an artist learns his craft too well he makes slick art.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">These sentences comment on art, but are not art.</li>
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joannharrahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04345826302528292617noreply@blogger.com0New York, NY40.7143528 -74.005973140.3291648 -74.65142010000001 41.0995408 -73.3605261tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954240551539001299.post-61473959098591528872014-02-16T17:46:00.000-05:002014-02-19T17:22:04.976-05:00Pete Seeger (1919 – 2014)<h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's planted by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We're young and old together, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's planted by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">CHORUS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We're women and men together, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's planted by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">CHORUS</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Here's the city and country together, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's standing by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We're black and white together, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's standing by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Yes, straight and gay together, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's planted by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Well, it's no nukes is good nukes, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's planted by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be move</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Split wood not atoms, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's planted by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not, we shall not be moved, (2x)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Just like a tree that's planted by the water</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">We shall not be moved</span></span><br />
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