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A review by gaybf
How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art by David Salle
2.0
went cycling between liking a little and absolutely hating what Mr. Salle had to say, and even the artwork he discussed. Here’s a quotation that I think explains why:
> This is art that says, “Forget all that stuff you thought you knew, that stuff about the phenomenology of perception, about institutional critique, and feminism, and post colonialism, and queer theory, and the theory of desire—forget about all of that; *this* is what you really want. Cartoons.”
Okay and here’s just a little of several portions I did like:
> entire essay, John Baldessari’s “Movie Script Series”
> “how appropriate to John’s sensibility is the screenplay form: flickers of images, words with pictures, bits of narrative spliced end to end; fragments imprinting on each other, forming memory—now we *know*. It’s how we feel our lives.
> This is art that says, “Forget all that stuff you thought you knew, that stuff about the phenomenology of perception, about institutional critique, and feminism, and post colonialism, and queer theory, and the theory of desire—forget about all of that; *this* is what you really want. Cartoons.”
Okay and here’s just a little of several portions I did like:
> entire essay, John Baldessari’s “Movie Script Series”
> “how appropriate to John’s sensibility is the screenplay form: flickers of images, words with pictures, bits of narrative spliced end to end; fragments imprinting on each other, forming memory—now we *know*. It’s how we feel our lives.