Jenny Holzer - The Living Series: It Takes a While, 1980-82
'When ideas fail, words come in very handy.'
'When ideas fail, words come in very handy.'
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
From The Death of the Author (1968) by Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
"The secret of being boring is to say everything." Voltaire (1694-1778)
The Acorn Of My Oak
We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
From The Death of the Author (1968) by Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
Images And Texts
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Galleries, Museums & Artists
- Albertina Museum (Austria)
- Alte Pinakotek (Germany)
- Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
- Baltimore Museum of Art (USA)
- Bill Henson
- Borghese Gallery and Museum (Italy)
- British Museum
- Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (Spain)
- Casa Museu Gaudí (Spain)
- Centre Pompidou (France)
- Château de Versailles (France)
- Château Vaux le Vicomte (France)
- Cindy Sherman (Metro Pictures)
- Cindy Sherman Online Resources
- Dallas Museum of Art (USA)
- De Young Museum of Art (USA)
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- Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (Australia)
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- Kunsthaus (Switzerland)
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- Metropolitan Museum of Art (USA)
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- Patricia Piccinini
- Peabody Essex Museum (USA)
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- Philip Brophy
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- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany)
- Starn (Twins) Studio
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- Tate (Britain)
- Tezuka Osamu
- The Art Institute of Chicago (USA)
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- The Art of Frank Miller
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- The Villa Borghese (Italy)
- Tolarno Galleries (Australia)
- Tony Oursler
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- Uffizzi Gallery (Italy)
- Van Gogh Museum (Holland)
- Vanessa Beecroft
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- White Cube Gallery (Britian)
- Whitney Museum of American Art (USA)
- Zentrum Paul Klee (Switzerland)
Journals & Websites
- 19 (Birbeck University of London)
- 21C Magazine
- A Fistful of Westerns
- Aesthetics Online
- American Film Institute
- ArtCult
- Artforum
- Artnet
- British Film Institute
- CTheory.net
- Culture Work
- Daily Serving
- Dialogue
- European Graduate School
- Fibreculture
- Fipresci (Undercurrent)
- Framework
- Frieze
- International Journal of Žižek Studies
- Invisible Culture
- Jump Cut
- Lacan.com
- M/C (Media & Culture)
- Reverse Shot
- Rouge
- School of English and the Humanities (Birbeck University of London)
- Screening the Past
- Senses of Cinema
- Synoptique
- Tate Etc.
- The Art Bin
- The Art Newspaper
- The Burlington Magazine
Philosophy
- Alain Baidou
- Baruch Spinoza
- Brian Massumi
- Edmund Husserl
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Film-Philosophy
- Foucault Studies
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Gilles Deleuze
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Henri Bergson
- Immanuel Kant
- Jacques Derrida
- Jacques Rancière
- Jean-Paul Sartre I
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- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Michel Foucault
- Paul Virilio
- Slavoj Žižek
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Television
- American Dad (Fox)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Mutant Enemy Productions)
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- Deadwood (HBO)
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- Robin Hood (BBC)
- Rome (HBO)
- Six Feet Under (HBO)
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- The Wire (HBO)
- Torchwood (BBC)