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I shall be posting a few friends-only pieces on some of my usual topics, but am incorporating my other usual topics into my art reviews at http://burnaway.org and http://www.artscriticatl.com. I'll try to remember to provide URLs for specific reviews as they appear. Right now none of them have been posted, though my ancient reviews are presumably still somewhere in the sites' archives.
Sep. 11th, 2011
Absolutely Fabulous Monsters, or, Latest Notes from My Ongoing Muddle
One of the many things I meant to write something substantive about but couldn’t was the happy coincidence of two museum shows in Atlanta this summer about mythical beings in antiquity. The more child-friendly of the two, which will now have toured to some other venue, featured a life-size model of a unicorn and life-size models of parts of rather larger creatures that do not exist, such as the kraken. These were juxtaposed with portrayals of these figures in actual pieces of art history (Chinese scrolls, medieval illuminations, etc.) and actual objects that led to the belief that such creatures existed (that familiar narwhal tusk for the unicorn’s horn, for example).
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One of the many things I meant to write something substantive about but couldn’t was the happy coincidence of two museum shows in Atlanta this summer about mythical beings in antiquity. The more child-friendly of the two, which will now have toured to some other venue, featured a life-size model of a unicorn and life-size models of parts of rather larger creatures that do not exist, such as the kraken. These were juxtaposed with portrayals of these figures in actual pieces of art history (Chinese scrolls, medieval illuminations, etc.) and actual objects that led to the belief that such creatures existed (that familiar narwhal tusk for the unicorn’s horn, for example).
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