Monday, January 16, 2012

Sharpest Point: "The Rock": William Kentridge

Read essay "The Rock": William Kentridge's Drawings for Projection by Rosalind Krauss in The Sharpest Point.
Notes: quote from Kentridge "There was no feeling of what a good idea I had had, rather, relief at not having overlooked what was in front of me. " (Page 101)
"Fortuna" and automatisms discussed throughout.
Quoting Cavell "In calling such things automatisms, I do not mean that they automatically ensure artistic success or depth, but that in mastering a tradition one masters a range of automatisms upon which the tradition maintains itself.".  (page 103)
Page 104-105 discusses implosion of Modernism.
Page 110 compares time exposures to snap shots as metaphor.
Palimpsest being animated/revealed through destructive animation style (erasure) described. (page 112).

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