Tag: Juan Sebastián Andrade-Martínez
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Un toro, unos fríjoles, y muchos mártires: three Spanish anti-war paintings
“ . . . But this number [the number of people killed in the Holocaust], like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few of us can grasp, but as 5.7 million times one. This does not mean some generic image of a Jew passing through some abstract…
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Basquiat: A Griot and His Skulls
“I don’t know how to describe my work, because it’s not always the same thing. It’s like asking somebody, asking Miles [Davis], “How does your horn sound?” I don’t think he could really tell you why he plays this at this point in the music. You’re sort of on automatic.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat It’s hard…
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Italian Futurism: Movement for Movement’s Sake
I have an irrational fear of Antonin Artaud. It’s not because of Artaud himself, a twentieth-century French avant-garde actor and writer. It’s because of the ideas his face evokes in my brain: the uncanny stuttering of a dying lamp, that ethical problem called the repugnant conclusion, and the first-year student stress of finding a lab…
