Splashes of ink, dribbles and spattering of watercolour both obscure and are incorporated within the making of the image, whereas hand -
written fragments of text — with political undertones — and scribbles of ball - point pen generate an urban, graffiti style aesthetic which reminds one of artists like Basquiat but has a distinct and unique personality.
Not exact matches
King has been quick to add this discovered
text «does not, however, provide evidence that the historical Jesus was married,» she
wrote in a draft
of her analysis
of the
fragment set to appear in the January edition
of Harvard Theological Review.
While the first Opening lines are the initial portions
of dialogue or
text in a
written book often constituted by at least the first sentence or a
fragment thereof.
New Yorker Erica Baum photographs
fragments of images and
text from printed sources, while Canadian - born Moyra Davey creates photographs and videos that are simply about reading and
writing.
The show centers on a
text Krakow
wrote, entitled Shine, which is presented in its entirety as an artist's book, and incorporated as
fragments in her video
of the same title.
Some
of the works included in the exhibition explicitly engage with Eliot and his
writing, such as Philip Guston's grim deathbed painting East Coker: T.S.E. (1979); David Jones's painted inscription Nam Sibyllam (1958), made as a gift for Eliot, which combines the
text from Petronius that is The Waste Land's epigraph with the opening lines
of the poem and other phrases connected to the Grail myth; Graham Sutherland's two Illustrations for T. S. Eliot (1973); and Vibeke Tandberg's The Waste Land (2007), which consists
of 36 collages in which the artist has cut out each
of the words
of the poem, and re-organised them alphabetically and in groups, at once
fragmenting Eliot's poem
of «broken images» even further and bringing its underlying verbal structure to light.
The presented works will be connected with
texts on the artists,
written by Josef Strau, partly already published, partly in a more
fragmented form
of some collected notes.
For this project, Finley gathered selections from her art and
writing on the subject
of HIV / AIDS, including performance
texts, poetry, letters, and other
fragments.
The
text — whose title is drawn from Amir Baraka's 1964 poem «Black Dada Nihilismus» — is an assimilation
of fragments from sources ranging from Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada manifesto to Ron Sillman's poetry to Pendleton's own
writing.
The exhibition pursues a thesis proposed by two
fragments of text,
written nearly forty years apart but conveying a similar notion
of temporal disorientation and, vitally, the amalgamation
of American Mass Age glamour and European intellectualism.