Tag Archives: Douglas Crimp

Rat Art – Living In The ’80s

Killing Joke [Christy] Rupp and I live in the same building in lower Manhattan, just a few blocks south of City Hall, where the most reactionary mayor in New York’s recent history delivers the city over to powerful real estate … Continue reading

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The 90º Shift from Nature to Culture

A shift of such magnitude does not come overnight, nor as the feat of one artist alone. Portents and antecedents become increasingly recognizable in retrospect — Monet’s Nymphéas or Mondrian’s transmutation of sea and sky into signs plus and minus. … Continue reading

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Possessed To Write

Graphomania: (from Greek γραφειν — writing, and μανία — insanity), also known as scribomania, refers to an obsessive impulse to write. When used in a specifically psychiatric context, it labels a morbid mental condition characterized by the writing of long … Continue reading

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Rat Art – Living in The Eighties

[Christy] Rupp and I live in the same building in lower Manhattan, just a few blocks south of City Hall, where the most reactionary mayor in New York’s recent history delivers the city over to powerful real estate developers while … Continue reading

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