July 16, 2010
Poetry Fix Episode 7: Robert Frost
By Chris Robinson
Episode 7 of Poetry Fix: Robert Frosts’s “Once by the Pacific.”
Episode 7 of Poetry Fix: Robert Frosts’s “Once by the Pacific.”
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July 14, 2010
Thoughts on “Mock Orange” and Minimalism
By Micah Towery
Minimalism is not about powerful messages about the nihilism or poverty of the human condition (though it’s certainly easy to think so!). Instead, minimalist art creates a framework through which you view the world. It gives you the bones of the skeleton and then you fill out the flesh. But watch out! The minimalist artist still controls the bones (and hence the body that you have put on them). Minimalism is as silent as the movie frame.
Minimalism is not about powerful messages about the nihilism or poverty of the human condition (though it’s certainly easy to think so!). Instead, minimalist art creates a framework through which you view the world. It gives you the bones of the skeleton and then you fill out the flesh. But watch out! The minimalist artist still controls the bones (and hence the body that you have put on them). Minimalism is as silent as the movie frame.
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