Goddess of Panavision
Posted by michelle on 25 Mar 2008 at 06:40 pm | Tagged as: art paparazzi, video/film
Blaffer Gallery Curator Claudia Schmuckli invited French filmmaker Chantal Akerman to show five works, including a new film/video installation project commissioned by the University of Houston. The show closes in four days so I wanted to highlight a clip from one of the pieces in “Moving Through Time and Space.” To read a thoughtful review of the show visit our neighbors.
Enjoy one of many beautiful stills from the show:
A Mother’s Gift
What the series reflects, however, is the distinctively modern experience of knowing many famous people but rarely knowing in any depth what they are famous for. Lots of people know the name Gertrude Stein, but how many have actually read anything she wrote? I’ll bet Warhol himself never read Martin Buber or knew anything about Brandeis’s legal philosophy. I wouldn’t be surprised if he never read Kafka or Freud.
The issue for Warhol is not what his subjects did and not Jewishness in general. His real subject was fame. He was interested in famous people simply because they were famous. The difference between the 10 great Jews series and, for example, Warhol’s 1964 series “Thirteen Most Wanted Men” is less significant than what they have in common. Both are, above all, about publicity.
Purposeless nostalgia only highlight the inability of art to bring about social change.
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