What's the difference between a "generative art historian" and
a.n.other historian?
On 4/14/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Doug,
>
> I might sample, if I'm already at the National Gallery of Art for a film.
>
> Otherwise, I should say that I've seen her previously in person and have
> read some of her writing. I remain utterly unconvinced. The only way to
> stomach a reading of Christmas poetry selected by her and Harold Bloom
> (which I attended to experience those two directly) was to camp on it.
> Since there was another occasion in Wash DC during which I witnessed Harold
> Bloom challenged from the audience (he sputtered and eventually refused to
> continue), I can imagine Helen Vendler having a similar experience.
>
> Why she was chosen to deliver these lectures rather than generative art
> historians such as Moira Roth or Annette Michelson remains a mystery.
>
> Barry
>
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:47:05 -0600, Douglas Barbour
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >I qould assume, Barry, that anyone attending a Vendler lecture would be
> >polite & therefor not out to challenge. I have heard her once, giving a
> >lecture on Melville's civil war volume of poems, which (as I think I
> >have mentioend before) she had to fit into her sense of the traditional
> >lyric even as every word she said about it demonstrated that it was a
> >kind of pre-serial poem. But we were polite (or I was, & there was no
> >room for a real question period), & I only mentioned that to some of
> >the others in the audience afterwards....
> >
> > I guess you won't be there...?
> >
> >Doug
>
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