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Fascinating discussion about cruelty and art.
Some obliquely-related items, perhaps—
The rendering in *Art Spiegelman's* *Maus*.
Regarding same author's recent *Book of Genesis*—I read the excerpt in *The
New Yorker* earlier this year and loved it (it was just a few pages). I
sought some reviews and one by *Harold Bloom* simply dismissed and
disparaged the book because he said the women in *Genesis* are “supposed” to
be beautiful and he did not think *Art Spiegelman's* women in his
*Genesis*were beautiful.
Some of us thought *Spiegelman* succeeded in commenting on certain received
ideas of beauty and that his women are beautiful, and that Bloom’s view is
sheer rigid prejudice. Other feminists objected to all of
*Spiegelman's*women and some to all of his work.
(The other review by someone who understood visual art was more intelligent
about the visual aspects of the book. I eventually bought the book but have
not had time to read much or recently.) (Also interesting are *Spiegelman’s
* ideas about “*neosincerity*,” about which I heard him speak with *Alex* *
Melamid* (formerly of *Komar & Melamid*—take a look at *their* art) and in
re the *Danish cartoons debates* in recent years.)
Just some fragments.
And to follow up on those, the attached *Mankoff* cartoon published right
when he died of course, *with* Henny Youngman’s *obituary *in a 1998 issue
of *The New Yorker,* comes to mind.
And also the two attached *Shanahan* cartoons from *The New Yorker*.
Barrie
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Barrie Karp, Ph.D., Philosophy
barriekarp@gmail.com
New York City!
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Some obliquely-related items, perhaps—
The rendering in *Art Spiegelman's* *Maus*.
Regarding same author's recent *Book of Genesis*—I read the excerpt in *The
New Yorker* earlier this year and loved it (it was just a few pages). I
sought some reviews and one by *Harold Bloom* simply dismissed and
disparaged the book because he said the women in *Genesis* are “supposed” to
be beautiful and he did not think *Art Spiegelman's* women in his
*Genesis*were beautiful.
Some of us thought *Spiegelman* succeeded in commenting on certain received
ideas of beauty and that his women are beautiful, and that Bloom’s view is
sheer rigid prejudice. Other feminists objected to all of
*Spiegelman's*women and some to all of his work.
(The other review by someone who understood visual art was more intelligent
about the visual aspects of the book. I eventually bought the book but have
not had time to read much or recently.) (Also interesting are *Spiegelman’s
* ideas about “*neosincerity*,” about which I heard him speak with *Alex* *
Melamid* (formerly of *Komar & Melamid*—take a look at *their* art) and in
re the *Danish cartoons debates* in recent years.)
Just some fragments.
And to follow up on those, the attached *Mankoff* cartoon published right
when he died of course, *with* Henny Youngman’s *obituary *in a 1998 issue
of *The New Yorker,* comes to mind.
And also the two attached *Shanahan* cartoons from *The New Yorker*.
Barrie
--
Barrie Karp, Ph.D., Philosophy
barriekarp@gmail.com
New York City!
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
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