tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633621665763939304.post7893878572521490866..comments2024-03-11T06:12:02.296-05:00Comments on The Great God Pan Is Dead: Words trace bullets in Nick Barbee's CATO Robert Boydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633621665763939304.post-74555563587084650642011-12-15T23:01:36.235-06:002011-12-15T23:01:36.235-06:00I don't believe Art is about 'to alienate&...I don't believe Art is about 'to alienate', that is-- not in the purest sense of the expression. I'm sure some would disagree. When I heard the concluding remark "none of this (talk) matters" I felt awfully disjointed. I'm not saying it's awful to be disjointed. Listening to a talk that brings on a (un)comfortable, strange turbulence that provokes and evokes all sorts of ideals, intrigue, connections, and other types of vibrations, can ultimately breathe real interest. I mean disjointed as having been removed. Perhaps if I had just only looked at the sculptures and not listened to the talk, and thereby attempt to understand "Barbee's path to them" (that is, keep telling myself over and over that none of what he just said for forty minutes matters) I too would have seen Brancusi's Bird in Space that night. Better late than never.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6633621665763939304.post-36322832848462218792011-12-15T06:33:30.547-06:002011-12-15T06:33:30.547-06:00When I see these, I think of Brancusi's Bird i...When I see these, I think of Brancusi's Bird in Space sculptures. Sure Brancusi wasn't sculpting the path of a bullet through a human body. However, Borges wrote that every artist creates his own precursors. Looking at these sculptures, and understanding Barbee's path to them, can give us a subtly different understanding of Brancusi's birds. Robert Boydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10832011160514073833noreply@blogger.com