Re: Alan Baker`s post, which I accidentally wiped and so can`t quote
directly from. Your comparison of HWWR and painterly abstraction,
where they diverge acc. to individual word-items "carrying meaning"
or something... Prynne`s own Discourse on Willem de Kooning`s
`Rosy-Fingered Dawn at Louse Point` (tho` it`s moot re: that
painting`s being abstract (or how much) or not) talks about "declared
strokes" "which we can read quite easily" as evidence of the artist`s
"agency & intent" &c. - as the brushstrokes don`t just exist in a
vacuum - they have antecedents (he cites seventeenth century Dutch
interiors as well as Analytic Cubism) which locate de Kooning`s
repertoire in a system of differences; added to which, Prynne`s
experience of the painting "as a speaking being" seems to licence his
reading (and it is a READING) of the painting as if he too believed,
at least in this case, that il n`y a pas de hors-texte.
robin
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