This is my job...
...show me yours
18 January 2007
The Richard Mutt Case
If you read the post about Alfred Stieglitz´ letter to "The Blind Man",
please continue here.
This is the story, so well told, from a "DEBATE PAPER - Due in class,
Wednesday, November 28" at the Depauw University.
"Marcel Duchamp was a member of the Exhibitions Committee of
the Independent Society of Artists in New York City when, in 1917,
said Committee elected to hold a JURY-FREE EXHIBITION: this meant
that there would be no juror, no one authority deciding what could or
could not enter (what was or was not art): anyone could enter, and
anyone could enter anything, and it would be exhibited.
Without the knowledge of any of the members of the Independent
Society of Artists, Duchamp retrieved a men’s urinal, signed it
“R. Mutt,” and sent it into the show from Pennsylvania with a letter
signed “Richard Mutt,” signaling the title of the work as “Fountain.”
At the next meeting of the Independent Society of Artists, “Fountain”
was dismissed as inadmissible to the show. Duchamp protested that
the work should be admitted and exhibited because of the promise
and the premise of the jury-free show (that anyone could enter,
and that anyone could enter anything). The other artists still refused,
and Duchamp resigned in protest.
In his resignation letter, Duchamp wrote: “Whether Mr. Mutt with
his own hands made the fountain or not has no importance. He chose
it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful
significance disappeared under the new title and point of view and
created a new thought for that object.”
Duchamp then took “Fountain” to Gallery 291 (a gallery run by the
photographer Alfred Steiglitz which exhibited work by avant-garde
artists such as Picasso and Matisse) and, presenting the piece as
the work of one R. Mutt, asked Stieglitz to photograph it. Stieglitz
did so, and published the photograph in the periodical Camera Work.
Stieglitz then told him to get that “thing” out of his gallery and by all
means throw it away. Duchamp did, having proven his point (to himself
and no one else).
The Independent Society of Artists never guessed that the artist of
“Fountain” was Marcel Duchamp. Indeed no one knew, until Duchamp
himself told the story in the 1950s. The idea behind “Fountain” then
fully seized the imagination of many and Duchamp was asked to make
“Fountain” again. Not only did he make dozens of “Fountains”,
he also always signed them “R. Mutt, 1917.”
And have a look at this debate in The Blind Man.
tale from christmas eve (rather late one)
He is noisy
He is clumsy
He is a little bit too drunk
The dogs hate him
The kids love him
He is tradition.
photos and words: christofer grandin
17 January 2007
Gå vinnande ur matchen
I've been wrestling my thougts this fall but now I've got them with their backs to the floor
no jury-no prizes-no commercial tricks
Alfred Stieglitz suggested in a letter to "The Blind Man" dated
April 13, 1917 that the names of the artists in a catalogue for
an exhibition should not be revealed. An interesting approach,
indeed.
See the complete letter here (from No 2, New York May 1917
The Blind Man)
Found at the International Dada Archive.
Read more about Stieglitz at the F Blog.
good fortune
Markus's post made me think of simmilar portraits. i've chosen those powerful ones, with laughter and joy. i'd be glad if after 50 years they could look at these photos and say: "yeah, that was a good time!"
threw my bad fortune of the top of a tall building
i'd rather have done it with you
your boy's smile ive in the morning
looked into your eyes and i was really in love
/pj harvey - good fortune/
16 January 2007
the importance of...
Sometimes I get afraid that I will end up with lots and lots of photos that I wont understand when I get older. The photos I make today are importent to me now, but maybe not in the future...who knows. But photos of the people around me, the ones important to me, will always be treasured. Therefore I try not to forget them among all my cityscapes and strange abstracts. I don't know if these are of any interrest to someone else but I'll post them anyway.
Saori
Cecilia
Andreas I
Anna Maria
Andreas b S
Picnic
I totally agree with Jeanette...what´s up with this weather...give me some spring...longing for the sun to hit my face and a clearblue sky to look up at. So I say...spring picnic for everybody...
15 January 2007
The proof she´s been here
Rainy grey day in Stockholm...saw some toursits taking shots of them selfs and got curious...a snapshot between working time...
GruppoF inbox: Last Hope by Rhonda Prince
last hope
or is it...
when do you know when to give up hope?
when do you know when to give up hope?
Grallimatik lesson - 'Spännande' ('Exciting')
Hi. Welcome to this lesson in "grallimatik" (grammar).
Today we're gonna talk about the management "in"-words.
The words we use without reflecting.
Quite often they are what I call "power words".
Older such words quite often die a rather unflattering death, take for example the word 'stress tolerant' (stresstålig), that does not fly well anymore.
A word on its way out - but still going strong - is 'flexible' ('Flexibel'). This can still be used to force someone else to 'flex'. There are many other such words, like 'utvecklande' (developing), 'möjligheter' (opportunities) and so on. But we save them for another lesson. :-)
But on to 'Exciting' ('Spännande'). This word is so much in use today I just must point it out. Some example uses:
- Chefen: Så då levererar du det till nästa vecka.
- Du: Ja, det här kan bli spännande. Verkligen.
- Boss: So you will deliver this until next week.
- You: Yes, this will be exciting. Indeed.
We can be far from sure this will ever happen. But you were at least upbeat about it. And accepted the challenge. So who can blame you?
Another example from the other end:
- Chefen: Så då levererar du det till nästa vecka.
(Med forcerat glad röst) Visst ska det bli spännande? - Boss: So you will deliver this until next week.
Said with forced cheerful voice: This will be exciting, won't it?
We can be rather certain this is an impossible project and goal, but the boss won't accept any excuses. And who wants to be the cry baby anyway?
Example of being friend with the bosses:
- Chefen: Så då levererar ni det till nästa vecka.
- Medarbetare 1: Men vi har ju inte ens fått underlaget från kunden ännu!
- Medarbetare 2: Jag tycker ialla fall att det ska spännande att göra det här!
- Boss: So you will deliver this until next week.
- Worker 1: But we haven't even got the materials from the customer yet!
- Worker 2: Anyway, I think this will be exciting. So you know.
Worker1 came dangerously close to using the i-word, the forbidden word - 'impossible'. Much talk is used to avoid pointing out when things actually can't realistically be done. The game is often lost for the person who utters this negative word. And any smart co-worker should quickly take the chance of being upbeat and positive at that time. Being friends with the bosses.
Example when it all went wrong:
- Chefen: Men varför levererade ni inte som vi kom överens om? Förklara det här nu!
- Medarbetare 1: Vi fick inte underlaget från kunden i tid. Och och...
- Chefen: Nu tycker jag att du är negativ. Du sa ju att det här skulle bli spännande!
- Medarbetare 1: [...]
- Chefen: Det är ditt fel att projektet havererade, nu får du reda upp det här.
- Chefen: Vi har förresten ett nytt projekt som måste vara färdigt veckan efter. Ganska spännande projekt faktiskt. Men det hinner du också!
- Boss: But why didn't you deliver in time as we agreed on? Explain this now!
- Worker 1: We didn't get the materials from the customer in time. And and...
- Boss: You are only being negative here. You said you thought it would be exciting, didn't you!
- Worker 1: [...]
- Boss: It is your fault this project has crashed, now you will have to sort it up.
- Boss: By the way, we have another project that need to be finished the week after. A rather exciting project, I'd say myself. You will have time to finish both of them.
By pinpointing any negative views whatsoever, the boss can get the upper hand here, by immediately blaiming the innocent person. From that point, it is an easy task to get twice the effort out of the worker, which hardly grasp what happened.
Spännande is such a useful word. What is the most interesting aspect about it that I really haven't got a clue what it really actually MEANS, in most cases. So start use it, y'all!
-Christian (also a boss)
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