The first page of Tom Phillips’ A Humument is emblematic of the entire work. Textually and graphically it touches on some of the book’s central concerns and provides clues to certain of its mysteries.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature, Writing
Tagged: A Humument, appropriation, intertextuality, Tom Phillips, W.H. Mallock
- Published:
- 02.01.2010 – 6:00 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin
Kafka’s parable of leopards in the temple has always struck me as a perfect allegory of the avant-garde in that it points out the truism that in art the transgressive is ultimately absorbed into the canon.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature
Tagged: anti-art, Franz Kafka, Susan Sontag, the avant-garde
- Published:
- 01.20.2010 – 6:00 am
- Author:
- By Nipperkin