ART WARS April 7, 2009

Three notes from the journal of
Steven H. Cullinane on May 11, 2005,
in chronological order --

11:00 AM Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Art History

Reuters - "Joe Grant, a legendary Disney artist who designed the Queen/Witch in 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' died of a heart attack while doing what he loved most, drawing, the Walt Disney Co. said Monday.


Grant, 96, died at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale last Friday while sitting at his drawing board."

"With a little effort, anything can be
shown to connect with anything else:
existence is infinitely cross-referenced."

-- Opening sentence of
Martha Cooley's The Archivist

From Log24 last Friday,
a Greek cross:

Pandora's box, according to Rosalind Krauss

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And from Sunday, May 1
(Orthodox Easter)
:

Rosalind Krauss,

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Columbia University's
Meyer Schapiro Professor
of Modern Art and Theory:

"There is no painter in the West
who can be unaware of
the symbolic power of
the cruciform shape1
and the Pandora's box

The Wicked Queen's Box

of spiritual reference2
that is opened
once one uses it."

Click on pictures for details.
Related material:
Nine is a Vine3.

1, 2, 3 Today's birthdays:

1 Natasha Richardson, born 11 May 1963,
   Jedi wife and costar of Nell
2 Martha Quinn, born 11 May 1959,
   MTV wit
3 Frances Fisher, born 11 May 1952,
   dazzling redhead


3:00 PM Wednesday, May 11, 2005
De Arco

... y eres tú y soy yo
y es un caminarte en círculo
dar a tus hechos dimensión de arco
y a solas con tu impulso decirte la palabra.

-- Homero Aridjis

For Lucero:

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Lucero as portrayed by Megan Follows Established in 1916,
Montreat College
is a private, Christian college
located in a beautiful valley
in the Blue Ridge Mountains
of North Carolina.
From Nell:

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"The valley spirit never dies..."


7:11 PM Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Goodbye Girl

  From a goodbye letter
by a girl named
  Lucero in Cuernavaca
  in the early 1960's:

"Si me de veras quieres,
deja me en paz
."

(See Shining Forth.)

Today's birthdays --
   Natasha Richardson,
   Martha Quinn,         
   Frances Fisher --     
 remind me of        
 

The Sprite and the Synergist
chapter in Bester's The Deceivers:

Three drinks later he was suddenly inspired.  "What I need right now is a girl to lose myself in.  That's the only way to wait for a pattern to show."

One of his reciprocal Rogues (he had a dozen alternate selves) answered, "Feel free, but you left your big red book in the workshop."

"Why, for jigjeeze sake, can't I have the little black book, famed in song and story?"

"Why can't you remember a phone number?  Never mind.  Shall we join the ladies?"

He made three calls, all negative.  He had three more drinks, all positive.  He stripped, went to his Japanese bed in the monk's cell, thrashed, swore, and slept at last, dreaming

crazed p a t t e r n s
           a t t e r n s
           t t e r n s
           t e r n s
           e r n s
           r n s
           n s
           s

"Whenever I want you,
all I have to do is..."

Deja me en paz...

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