February 20, 2009
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ART WARS continued:
The Cross
of Constantinementioned in
this afternoon’s entry
“Emblematizing the Modern“
was the object of a recent
cinematic chase sequence
(successful and inspiring)
starring Mira Sorvino
at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.In memory of
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,
dead by his own hand
on this date
four years ago –
There is
another sort of object
we may associate with a
different museum and with
a modern Constantine …
See “Art Wars for MoMA“
(Dec. 14, 2008).This object, modern
rather than medieval,
is the ninefold square:
It may suit those who,
like Rosalind Krauss
(see “Emblematizing“),
admire the grids of modern art
but view any sort of Christian
cross with fear and loathing.For some background that
Dr. Thompson might appreciate,
see notes on Geometry and Death
in this journal, June 1-15, 2007,
and the five Log24 entries
ending at 9 AM Dec. 10. 2006,
which include this astute
observation by J. G. Ballard:“Modernism’s attempt to build a better world with the aid of science and technology now seems almost heroic. Bertolt Brecht, no fan of modernism, remarked that the mud, blood and carnage of the first world war trenches left its survivors longing for a future that resembled a white-tiled bathroom.“Selah.
