& luckily people don't love us
for our virtue or
we'd be in a bad way.
Graham Greene
I've been listening to Robert Creeley reading with Steve Swallow's music a
lot and now hear this in Creeley's phrasing and tone ... (Delete the
ampersand it's a close Creeleyesque verse.) I'm hearing everything that way
- makes for interesting interpretations!
Andrew
On 29/01/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> When you tell us about such events, Barry, you make me, at least,
> envious of your living in the environs of this place, which you take
> such good advantage of. Sounds fascinating, to be sure....
>
> Doug
> On 27-Jan-08, at 7:27 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
> > Yesterday afternoon I made a special trip to the National Gallery of
> > Art in
> > Washington DC, hoping that they would show the scheduled four hours of
> > documentaries on art in the revised order printed on their website.
> > I had
> > decided in advance that I only wanted to witness Francois Levy-
> > Kuentz's
> > documentary on Yves Klein ("La Revolution Bleue", 2006, 52
> > minutes). This
> > visual artist had intrigued me for years, but I had a rather sketchy
> > perspective on him. My hope was that this film might include some
> > archival
> > footage, never knowing that Klein had arranged for filmic
> > documentation of
> > the major moves in his life/career. What a dazzling figure--way
> > beyond
> > what I had imagined. As I was leaving the museum, a fellow
> > spectator asked
> > me whether the film documented an actual person or whether an
> > imaginary
> > being had been concocted by the filmmaker. There's also otherwise
> > unavailable footage of Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Realistes
> > (Arman,
> > Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, Cesar, and Francois Dufrene [performing
> > sound poetry]). In fact, I had not known that Yves Klein had
> > cofounded
> > this vanguard movement with the critic Restany in 1960. Others
> > involved
> > (but not imaged in the film) included Martial Raysse, Mimmo Rotella,
> > then
> > Niki de Saint Phalle, and last but not least, Christo joined the
> > group in
> > 1963. I'm tempted to offer comparisons to literary manifestations
> > which
> > emerged in 1960, but let me just say that many of the figures
> > associated
> > with Oulipo are equally fresh and inventive.
> >
> > "La Revolution Bleue" is available on DVD if you don't want to wait
> > until
> > it's screened within a visual art context in your geographic range.
> > My
> > highest recommendation:
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.artfifa.com/index.php?option=com_film&task=view&id=699&Itemid=51
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> > <
> http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/en/shop/products/details/36-dvd-video-yves-
> > klein-la-revolution-bleue.html>
> >
> >
> > Barry Alpert
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
> & luckily people don't love us
> for our virtue or
> we'd be in a bad way.
>
> Graham Greene
>
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Andrew
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