Completely agree, Joana. One of the loveliest things about this forum has been discovering how many women are not simply present, but actively driving the quality and generosity of...
@axel Yes! I love that your Byzantine prehistory gives us a way to distinguish familiarity from exhaustion. Within icon culture, resemblance to an established prototype was not evi...
I’m largely with you, though I might go one step further. Artistic intent may be sufficient to bring an image into criticism, but I’m not sure it should be necessary for critical a...
I think this is exactly the useful distinction, and perhaps it makes the analogy more specific rather than less so. With AI, aesthetic agency has been concentrated much further ups...
Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2. It has that thing I love in Cocteau and Fellini, where beauty is never far from grotesquerie and symbolism feels closer to dream logic than something...