August 4, 2006

• ART WARS
  continued from
  previous entry

  In memory of
  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf:

  "Who is the fairest of them all?"

  This question might

  well be posed by...

  

  Rosalind Krauss,

  Meyer Schapiro Professor
  of Modern Art and Theory
  at Columbia University
  (Ph.D., Harvard U., 1969).
  

  "The grid is a staircase to the Universal....
  We could think about Ad Reinhardt, who,
  despite his repeated insistence that
  'Art is art,'
  ended up by painting a series of...
  nine-square grids in which the motif
  that inescapably emerges is
  a Greek cross.

  
  Adapted from
  Ad Reinhardt

  There is no painter in the West
  who can be unaware of
  the symbolic power
  of the cruciform shape and the
  Pandora's box of spiritual reference
  that is opened once one uses it."

  -- Rosalind Krauss in "Grids"

  "Nine is a very powerful Nordic number."
  -- Katherine Neville, author of The Eight
  

  Related material:

  Balanchine's Birthday,

  Apollo and Christ.

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