Not exact matches
A mystical life was sought in New Mexico, for some a poetic life, but there
also co-existed among the artists and writers there, a strong sense of sense of self and of
artistic purpose.
Of course, I write this letter in part because the same logic applies to this magazine, whose very
purpose is supposedly to render such redundancy more visible, unfolding its implications not only for
artistic production but
also for art's relationship with the culture at large.
The artist
also described her mother as «a Southern belle who refused to be thrown away,» and works like «Blue Poles» and «Dirty Heel» purposefully glamorize imperfections — a pimple, an unwashed foot — that most would Photoshop out (Minter does use Photoshop in her work, but for
artistic purposes rather than airbrushing ones; she calls the program «manna from heaven»).