Word: aestheticism
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You know about comicbooks but do you know about comicboxes? "Stripburger" #28, subtitled "Miniburger," ($20; Stripcore) and "Non" #5 ($22; Red Ink Press) both have to be unpacked before you can do any reading, turning them more into object d'art than ordinary books. Tiny print-run, hand-made mini...
For Sontag, art matters, sometimes more than life itself. Two fascinating pieces recount her rather daring directorial debut in Sarajevo in 1993, a time when rifle rounds were still zinging lethally across Sniper’s Alley. The play, Waiting for Godot, could have been exploited facilely—both...
I cannot quarrel with most of Sontag’s aesthetic judgments—they are, with no obvious exceptions, level-headed essays of appreciation for roundly-lauded artists—but her unremitting earnestness ultimately make her essays a chore to read. One wonders not just at Sontagâ?...
Considered in their context, then, and viewed with the benefit of hindsight, these pictures do-even if unintentionally-make important statements about the self-representation of America throughout the 20th century: about its own sense of self, its aesthetic, and perhaps most importantly, it's shortcomings.
Lee's work, considered from a purely aesthetic and technical standpoint, is quite remarkable. She seamlessly and easily assumes the visual identities of people who, although often living side by side (as in New York City, where many of the "Projects" were shot), come from all walks of life, and...