Archive for: Caro

Looks like We’re in for Heavy Concepts

A lot of the work that claims to be so “high concept” doesn’t really strike me as actually being all that high concept. It’s more “heavy concept” than “high concept.”

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What Does That Even Mean?

Knowledge, hipness, and Dan Clowes in Ghost World.

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The Ants at the Picnic of the Arts

Franklin Einspruch and Caroline Small on Theory vs. Art vs. The Academy

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On the 10th day of Christmas…

What is so marvelous about this illustration is that it draws from abstraction a kind of conceptual quality without aiming for narrative or semiotics – an embodied, tactile concept dominated by space and sensation.

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“Qu’est-ce que c’est Godard?” Roundtable Index

The Godard roundtable index

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Bonne fête, M. Godard!

Godard gets a roundtable. Bon Anniversaire!

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Tween Horror

“The widespread and almost-always knee-jerk “feminist” contempt for Bella, both in itself and in comparison with “tough” female characters like Katniss and Buffy, is a tremendous intellectual and social failure.”

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