Art 222: January 17, 2001

Art 222
Out of the Fiery Furnace

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FRAMING NATURE
January 17, 2001"

Some materials for our consideration.

Karen Knorr. Pleasures of the Imagination: Connoisseurs. 1986. Photograph.
Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid. America's Most Wanted Painting, 1994. See the Komar and Melamid Homepage, "The Most Wanted Paintings."
Listed, but not seen in class:
Genesis, Chap. 4, Douay-Rheims translation.
Little Openwork (Xiao Linglong). A spirit stone. Pseudomorphic Opal on a wooden stand, Ht: 7 7/8".

Anecdote of the Jar

I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.

Wallace Stevens, from Harmonium (1923)

Online Resources

Komar and Melamid Homepage: Most Wanted Paintings on the Web.: By surveying what people liked and disliked in their art, these artists made composites of the paintings most calculated to please various nationalities. Americans express a strong preference for landscapes or similar outdoor scenes.
Feigning With the Strange Unlike: A Wallace Stevens Site: Dr. David Lavery's page on the poet is a good place to start on the poet.
Not too much about German artist Karen Knorr online, but see: Tiziana Conti's review of a current show in Turin, with one image; The Centro de estudios fotográficos de Vigo showed her work in 1996, but it is difficult to locate in this site with frames (easier if you can read Spanish!).; Two images from the 1996 Vigo exhibition are posted at Zone Zero, Song of the Dawn; Try the Knorr link on the home page and search for 7th Photo Biennial (under Exposións)
Bibles.net: A site that allows you to search several different versions of the Bible, including many modern translations, foreign language versions, and the Latin Vulgate.
The Douay-Rheims Bible Home Page: Includes a history of this version, and complete text online.; This Marian site gives a passionate answer to the question of Why You Should Read Only the Douay-Rheims Translation.

Additional Reading:

Malcolm Andrews, Landscape and Western Art, Oxford University Press, 1999.

Stephen Little, Spirit Stones of China, Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.