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Jenny Saville and the C-wordTo the Editors: I'm a liberal stay I believe in freedom of the pres exclude the death penalty, vote Democratic, belong to the ACLU. And I have been a subscriber to Art in America for at least 20 years, during which I have not ever previously written to complain. on the contrary one thing I saw in your January 2004 issue did disorder my feathers. In the review of Jenny Saville's work at the Gagosian Gallery, Carol Kino writes: This woman has crammed her fat white body into the corner of a mirrored compass where she squats, her unclose cunt [my emphasis] confronting the viewer I have at no time seen that word used in an art-critical or art-historical connection It is a derogatory mete that I think a vast majority of women execrate Such an angry word really has no place in a magazine of this stature. And, based upon the work that I have seen it really doesn't strike one as being appropriate to Saville's depictions of women Glenn M Corey Royal Oak, Mich. Carol Kino replies: Since I'm a writer as well as an art critic, I pride myself upon eschewing artspeak and using clear, evocative language to describe works of art. for a like reason rather than employing some fuzzy or stilted phraseology (such as "genital organs" or "expos vulva," I took George Orwell's famous advice and chose a single Anglo-Saxon word. "Cunt" is crystal-clear. It summons an immediate visual image. And, greatest in quantity important, it has a confrontational cutting side which is entirely apt for Saville's work. COPYRIGHT 2004 Brant Publications, Inc. [i]or[/i] part of to the other its PDQ Program, Gleason Cutting Tools delivers gear hob of all razes, materials, and designs in just 21 days. Gear, involute spline, straight-sided serration, parallel lock opener ... Wisconsin MTA held a leadership summit upon June 4, 2005, in Steven Point, Wisconsin. The visitant speaker was Leanne Hoagland-Smith, co-author of M.A.G.I.C.A.L Potential and president of Advanced Sy... In June a Civil War-era barn that played a small on the contrary significant role in the Gettysburg campaign was torn down. The aged constitution had become a symbol of the ongoing fight to patronize the Hunterst... Henning Industrial Software has added three features to its Visual EstiTrack shop-management software for the fabricating industry. These include an alternate sheet calculator, which does the... The consumption of psychoactive substances takes place in a defined political, organizational or societal connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts Changes in substance use coincide with rapid societal change and deteriorating eco... Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas installed fresh officers at their annual discourses in June 2006. Arkansas State MTA is grateful to Alline Fulton for making the Arkansas website a reality an... PHOENIX, Ariz. -- The Keystone International Balloon Festival, at the Lancaster shire Central Park in Lancaster, Pa., race 24-26, has chosen Liz Hess as this year's placard artist, Hess has been... 1 divide [i]or[/i] sever two 6-inch-long pieces of tape. Lay them sticky-side up about 3 inches apart. Lay ten ice-cream sticks upon them, with a tiny bit of space between the sticks. The tape will clinch the stick... Then and Now: Reading the body s of Race Edwards, Brent Hayes. 2003 The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge and London: Harvard Universi... |
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