Another great read. Your deep dive into the mythography within visual arts has inspired me to keep an eye open for the traces of myth in the visual arts 👁️
The notion of intertextuality evoked by dissolved boundaries -- between human and environment, text and referent, medium and subject -- is fascinating. Thank you for bringing these two visual artists into conversation with each other and with other works. Art should be dialogic.
Speaking of which, Yasmina Reza's play <Art> ends a discussion of a white on white painting, "It represents a man who moves across a space and disappears." That is not only what art should do, reify the passage of a moment, but also dictates how humankind should behave in our "trans-corporeality."
Intertextuality is another dimension of dialogue between political, literary, and ecological mediums. If inscription lies at the heart of this discourse—where environments inscribe the human and upon which the human inscribes—what does “text” denote?
Moreover, we’re forced to consider whether this text is stable. Is the human—natural continuum a palimpsest, constantly erased and re-inscribed layer upon layer? These are the questions I think must be front and center in ecocriticism.
I always learn so much from your work! the least of which is there are so many new words I need to look up and learn <3 A fabulous read as always
Great read!
Another great read. Your deep dive into the mythography within visual arts has inspired me to keep an eye open for the traces of myth in the visual arts 👁️
Once you start seeing it, it's hard to stop!
The notion of intertextuality evoked by dissolved boundaries -- between human and environment, text and referent, medium and subject -- is fascinating. Thank you for bringing these two visual artists into conversation with each other and with other works. Art should be dialogic.
Speaking of which, Yasmina Reza's play <Art> ends a discussion of a white on white painting, "It represents a man who moves across a space and disappears." That is not only what art should do, reify the passage of a moment, but also dictates how humankind should behave in our "trans-corporeality."
Intertextuality is another dimension of dialogue between political, literary, and ecological mediums. If inscription lies at the heart of this discourse—where environments inscribe the human and upon which the human inscribes—what does “text” denote?
Moreover, we’re forced to consider whether this text is stable. Is the human—natural continuum a palimpsest, constantly erased and re-inscribed layer upon layer? These are the questions I think must be front and center in ecocriticism.