The concept that guides Art Quips originates from my fascination with
the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, America's first "public
intellectual" whose style of writing was both erudite and euphemistic,
borrowing from myriad sources and grappling with classic, sometimes
timely and then contemporary themes, but never without a language that
was hermetic, hybridized, and extremely idiosyncratic.
Henry McBride, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Donald Judd, and Gregory Battcock, all dealt specifically with the Arts, yet constructed their own use of language as a means of self expression, a resource for an art hungry public, and as a renewed tradition in the rigor and legacy of the art writer.
The best writer is one of quips: short, loaded statements that can prove either lofty, polemical, amusing, or down to earth.
Henry McBride, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Donald Judd, and Gregory Battcock, all dealt specifically with the Arts, yet constructed their own use of language as a means of self expression, a resource for an art hungry public, and as a renewed tradition in the rigor and legacy of the art writer.
The best writer is one of quips: short, loaded statements that can prove either lofty, polemical, amusing, or down to earth.
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