Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some have argued that the project is not succeeding because of inadequate funding. A writer recently used this space to tell us of paint and plaster from his newly renovated ceiling falling on his bed each night. But sloppy work and poor funding only capture part of the problem. Because the idea behind the renovations is itself deeply flawed, the Quad will remain, even after renovations are completed, the river's sloppy second...
...with the current round of renovations, the College will perpetuate these inequalities, patching the paint on the surface but neglecting what lies deeper. What can you complain about once your room is renovated? Cabot House even has entryways now, just like the river. The College has, we will be told, done its best. It is not possible, after all, to move the Quad...
Although Wu Hung did not think of himself as counterrevolutionary, his comments about the prevalence of Communist propaganda were considered dangerous by the government "I suggested we paint Chairman Mao quotations on the inside of our eyeglasses," Wu Hung recounts. "I paid too much for this kind of joke...
...Italian Jew whose surname suggests ties to those members of the Levite tribe who were entrusted with guarding the sacred tabernacle. Not ritual priests but deacons, Levites were workers with practical tasks to perform. Appropriately, Levi came to writing through chemistry. For 30 years he worked for a Turin paint manufacturer. Before that he was the unwilling employee of the Nazis, who recruited him at Auschwitz for his technical skills. While millions died for what they were, Levi lived because of what he could do. His books (Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, Moments of Reprieve) are other ways of doing...
...made him the Thomas Chatterton of formalism, the "marvelous boy," dying just as his genius was ready to blossom. He owes his reputation to the critic Clement Greenberg, who was also his coach. It is not really true, as has often been said, that Greenberg told Louis what to paint, though he probably had more influence over this lonely, gifted and insecure man than any American critic has had over any other artist. Nevertheless, Louis' instinct for light as the primal theme of painting, and his desire to find a refined hedonistic syntax for it, winds back beyond Greenberg...