Word: clicheed
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Perhaps one should take Rousseau more on his own terms. The Paris modernists --Jarry, Apollinaire, Picasso, Delaunay, Brancusi--hailed his work because of its fierce, astringent poetry, but also because it seemed to have predicted their own conscious concerns: the interest in popular art like the prints known as images...
Neither can his sincerity and his piety. But Voskuil and others suggest that his focus on the self leads to a kind of religious narcissism. In his moments of introspection, the once self-doubting Schuller may half agree that there is something to the charge. Says he: "The old cliche...
Finally, last week, Jeremy Levin, 52, Beirut bureau chief for the Atlanta- based Cable News Network, saw his chance. There was slack in the chain that bound him, just enough to wiggle free. "I got the chain off," he said. "It's the usual cliche. I tied three blankets together...
Bernhard Goetz, who was mugged on the train in 1981, was a regular subway rider even after that assault. Surely he, like all other regular subway riders, has seen just about every imaginable thing, and some that have led to the phrase "only in New York" becoming a cliche, like...
Duncan, Clarke and Wackerbath are hardly the first to tie together essentially unrelated works with a single object: Rod Serling and his cigar made a career out of it. The only way to transcend cliche is to go for it: modesty is no virtue in conceptual art. Duncan's mediocre...