tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post4687668427956961918..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: Celando SfatatoMichael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-936975432201271782012-05-18T07:48:03.901-07:002012-05-18T07:48:03.901-07:00There was an artist as well, I forget his name, wh...There was an artist as well, I forget his name, who painted a series of mockeries of impressionist art that were glowingly reviewed. Late in life and not terribly successful, he admitted that was the direction he should have gone in.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-57213398125224781952012-05-10T22:45:04.249-07:002012-05-10T22:45:04.249-07:00The danger with artistic fakery is that it might n...The danger with artistic fakery is that it might not end up being fake.<br /><br />Have you heard of Ern Malley? He was a fictitious self taught modernist poet dreamed up to embarrass an Australian literary journal - with great success. He was hailed as a major discovery until the story of the prank came out.<br /><br />It's the sort of thing which sounds like a great lark, but I read abook about the affair, and it was both sadder and more interesting than it sounds on the surface.HANNAH'S DADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05877455489975811860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-42364900519810335922012-05-08T06:46:48.337-07:002012-05-08T06:46:48.337-07:00Oh, and thank you, springer. It was a good though...Oh, and thank you, springer. It was a good thought to look.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-83213866928496034612012-05-08T06:45:49.062-07:002012-05-08T06:45:49.062-07:00The funny thing is that I spotted the piece becaus...The funny thing is that I spotted the piece because after several hours of viewing contemporary art, it simply LOOKED wrong. Given how deliberately crude much contemporary art is, I can't explain that.<br /><br />David, I was extremely tempted years ago, when I saw some of Richard Prince's "appropriation" photos (photographs of iconic works by great photographers, with Prince credited as their creator) in I forget which museum -- either the Carnegie or the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- to make labels crediting the photos to myself, paste them over the originals, and wait to see how long it took for the alteration to be discovered. But I didn't. I have these impulses all the time and only rarely give in to them.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-18255344243891664162012-05-08T02:37:53.311-07:002012-05-08T02:37:53.311-07:00Perhaps it's a kind of meta art business art a...Perhaps it's a kind of meta art business art and someone really sold it to the museum to exhibit it under a funny pseudonym so everybody just thinks it's a fake but it isn't ... Augh, my mind is whirling.Frank Böhmerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00008426544112735280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-36896441274792409992012-05-07T20:54:45.103-07:002012-05-07T20:54:45.103-07:00So... are you going to do this with one of yours?So... are you going to do this with one of yours?David Stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09983230505509685792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-63409442526063727202012-05-07T13:53:25.851-07:002012-05-07T13:53:25.851-07:00That's hilarious. I'm going to have to sho...That's hilarious. I'm going to have to show this to my wife (the art history major)!Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-48587898799455497952012-05-07T07:48:13.883-07:002012-05-07T07:48:13.883-07:00Google translate has the artist's name rendere...Google translate has the artist's name rendered into English as "Concealing Debunked."<br /><br />Nice catch.springerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02535019960919906873noreply@blogger.com