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“What do you do guaranteed!?” – Joel Bauer“Raised lettering, pale nimbus… white.” – American Psycho
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“The set of objects the Museum displays is sustained only by the fiction that they somehow constitute a coherent representational universe. The fiction is that a repeated metonymic displacement of fragment for totality, object to label, series of objects to series of labels, can still produce a representation which is somehow adequate to a nonlinguistic universe. Such a fiction is the result of an uncritical belief in the notion that ordering and classifying, that is to say, the spatial juxtaposition of fragments, can produce a representational understanding of the world. Should the fiction disappear, there is nothing left of the Museum but “bric-a-brac,” a heap of meaningless and valueless fragments of objects which are incapable of substituting themselves either metonymically for the original objects or metaphorically for their representations.”
On The Museum’s Ruins (1980) – Douglas Crimp
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“They erect their art within the archive. They were not meant to foster the lamentations – the lost youth, the absence of vigor, and the decline of inventive ness through which we reproach our Alexandrian age, but to unearth an essential aspect of our culture: every painting now belongs within the squared and massive surface of painting and all literary works are confined to the indefinite murmur of writing.”“They share a distaste for city life and particularly for their fate of sitting behind desks all day.”
“They begin with the notion that they will farm their farm, at which they fail miserably. From agriculture they move to a more specialized field: arboriculture. Failing that they decide upon garden architecture.”
“- Onward! Enough speculation! Keep on copying! The page must be filled. Everything is equal, the good and the evil. The farcical and the sublime- the beautiful and the ugly-the insignificant and the typical, they all become an exaltation of the statistical. There are nothing but facts – and phenomena.”On The Museum’s Ruins (1980) – Douglas Crimp
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Design for a garden shelter.
Descriptive Geometry for architects and builders
Leslie A.Lee & R,Fraser Reekie
1943 (Printed 1949)
