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...Fogg Museum's latest exhibit, "Prints of Darkness," glorifies the role of black in art. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints Marjorie B. Cohn has organized her, exhibition around a strong the matic core--the centrality of black in people's conception of art, emotion, politics and society. Cohn "invites" her viewers to examine the string of black rectangles contained in the exhibit with imagination, and to consider the importance of black in our conceptual ordering of the world...
Through its exploration of the emotional and symbolic impact of black, Cohn's exhibit tries to show that "every cultural construct, from alchemy to academe, from liturgy to law, has found a role for black." According to Cohn, black has permeated our society as a "symbol of the absolute." The ubiquitous power of black is further evidenced in the political realm--"blackness has become a mark and divider of the races." While these observations appear self-evident, When grouped together they have a greater impact...
...Cohn's exhibit traces the use of black in Western prints over the past 500 years. She stresses, how ever, that this is not an historical evaluation; rather, the older works were selected to represent "cate gorles of meaning," like death on conflict. By contrast, Cohn does not ascribe such limited meaning to the contemporary works in the collection, (which are decidedly more numerous and varied), but believes that they should be oper to individual interpretation...
...alike. We never were nor will we ever be like them. We would love to explain all this to the general over a cup of coffee or at the exhibit, and not on the battlefield. If there's no other way, though, we won't even mind doing it there. The only thing is that he will have to let us walk a fair distance to our water sources so that we can get into the long lines and fill our water bottles, since that's the way Radovan Karadzic and his friends want it. Then, he'll have...
While he's waiting for us, he can stop by the exhibit to see the bicycle, the potato and Kafka. We'll be glad to explain to him precisely what this bicycle and this potato mean to us, and what Kafka is doing there. In fact, he wouldn't even have to go to the show. We can tell him what all this means to us right now, today, because this is a live performance, our very own concept. After all, in Sarajevo we're all conceptual artists. Those who don't believe it should pay us a visit...