SCHEMATIZING (43)
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September 24, 2024
One in a series of posts via which HILOBROW’S Josh Glenn will attempt to depict the intellectual and emotional highs and lows of developing a semiotic schema. Series dedicated to its target audience of one: Malcolm Evans.
From MoMA website: “Black lines radiating outward from the round form at the painting’s center resemble the spokes of a bicycle wheel, like the one also on view in this gallery that so fascinated the artist’s brother Marcel Duchamp. Circles — some hand-painted, others cut from printed silver paper — evoke a flickering motion. This work’s ambiguous title, which brings together the nouns ‘solitude’ and ‘funnel,’ suggests a mechanical counterpart to a psychological state.”
So much of Suzanne Duchamp’s work troubles the “mathematical” precision popular among many of her fellow avant-garde artists. Here we find something like the G-Schema… but it’s more haphazard, fluid, internally inconsistent… a more perfect reflection of how culture works than any geometrically rationalized schema can offer. Here’s another way to put the same notion: “A mechanical counterpart to a psychological state.”
MORE FURSHLUGGINER THEORIES BY JOSH GLENN: SCHEMATIZING | IN CAHOOTS | JOSH’S MIDJOURNEY | POPSZTÁR SAMIZDAT | VIRUS VIGILANTE | TAKING THE MICKEY | WE ARE IRON MAN | AND WE LIVED BENEATH THE WAVES | IS IT A CHAMBER POT? | I’D LIKE TO FORCE THE WORLD TO SING | THE ARGONAUT FOLLY | THE PERFECT FLANEUR | THE TWENTIETH DAY OF JANUARY | THE REAL THING | THE YHWH VIRUS | THE SWEETEST HANGOVER | THE ORIGINAL STOOGE | BACK TO UTOPIA | FAKE AUTHENTICITY | CAMP, KITSCH & CHEESE | THE UNCLE HYPOTHESIS | MEET THE SEMIONAUTS | THE ABDUCTIVE METHOD | ORIGIN OF THE POGO | THE BLACK IRON PRISON | BLUE KRISHMA | BIG MAL LIVES | SCHMOOZITSU | YOU DOWN WITH VCP? | CALVIN PEEING MEME | DANIEL CLOWES: AGAINST GROOVY | DEBATING IN A VACUUM | PLUPERFECT PDA | SHOCKING BLOCKING.