The New Republic’s Jed Perl was as effusive in his praise for the Getty’s new Carleton Watkins book as I was.- Installing Michael Heizer presents a challenge, even his photo-documentation. (Aside to Art Institute of Chicago: What’s with this “John D.” way of crediting blog posts? Writers deserve bylines.)
- Joerg Colberg presents his favorite photobooks of the year. So does Alec Soth.
- Fresh-ish off a MoMA show, photographer Joann Verburg has released what might be the first artist-book-for-iPad.
- I’m loving these “Gold (in Silver)” posts from the ICP’s fantastic Fans in a Flashbulb blog. Here’s part one and part two.
- Jonathan Jones isn’t shy about comparing Gerhard Richter to Leonardo. [Image: Richter, Candle, 1982. Collection of SFMOMA.]
December 20, 2011, 3:22 pm
Jonathan Jones writes absolute rubbish, praising Tracey Emin’s drawing and her appointment to teach drawing at the Royal Academy and describing Hirst as a stand alone comet of the YBAs.
Comparing Gerhard Richter to Leonardo is standard Jonathan Jones buffoonery. Are you suggesting that you entertain Jones’ cockamamie thinking and writing? Or you’re recommending it?
You think a person painting photo realistic images and smearing paint with a squeegee has something to do with the paintings and drawings of Leonardo, not to mention the mass of his scientific investigations and writing?
Here’s a review of a Jonathan Jones review of John Martin:
http://trueoutsider.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/john-martins-apocalypse/
I don’t agree with a lot of Perl’s tastes in art by a long shot. Who agrees with everything? But this book of his is well worth reading for those interested in the New York Art world in the 50s before its disintegration in the 60s.
http://www.amazon.com/New-Art-City-Jed-Perl/dp/1400041317