From:
Bill Marsh <bmarsh54@zzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:05:52 -0400
Subject:
encyclopedia of stone sculpture
abknight@------ wrote
Quoted text begins.One of the things that I have hoped the
Internet could do would be to allow me to see a whole
ouvre but things are so broken up that I'm guessing a girl
might break a few nails scratching to access any more than
several Arp images.
End of quote.
Yeah, he's not exactly current. I finally broke down and bought a book
giving an overview of his work, with some poetry thrown in.
I find his irrationality refreshing, as it helps me break out of
established patterns, but it's not for everyone. Saw a tv show about
Milton Resnick the other night. He said something about the inevitable
highs and lows of an artist's development that I thought was profound,
yet disturbing. The idea was that you work up to a plateau of
discovery, ride it for a while, then it runs out and you plummet into a
painful funk of dismayed aimlessness. The memory of that pain is so
terrifying that artists unconsciously seeks a way to avoid the cycle
again, so he/she develops what Resnick call a "technique" by means of
which the artist avoids the pain of fall from grace >painful
muddle >regrowth into new areas. When the artist settles on that
technoque, he's done, says Resnick. It's all over after that.
Arp pushes me off that dead end perch somehow.
Bill Marsh
- References
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