Title | : | Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices |
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ISBN | : | 0979137705 |
ISBN-10 | : | 9780979137709 |
Language | : | English |
Format Type | : | Paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 218 |
Publication | : | First published March 1, 2007 |
Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices Reviews
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Very clever to choose failure as the theme, as it means I can't really complain about any mistakes or editing errors or anything really, since it's all probably just part of the project. I found this book in a little free library and hoped it would have something insightful or interesting to say on the topic, which I'm interested in by necessity, but other than a few interesting stories here and there most of it was a bit too esoteric literary technique kinda stuff.
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In her essay Notes On Beatification: The Case For Valerie Solanas, Catherine Lord writes:
The counts on which Valerie [Solanas] is usually convicted of failure are the following: she was not a lesbian, she was a lesbian, she didn't comb her hair, she was a hooker, she was poor, she held extremist views, she was humorless, her humor was inappropriate, she picked on an artist who would become important, she was clueless about the workings of the art market, and she missed. She did not, fortunately, kill Warhol, or anyone else. By the time she got to him, William Burroughs had already shot his wife, and Norman Mailer stabbed his. Louis Althusser had yet to strangle his. Let us not even begin to speak of Carl Andre. The only woman to survive her man was Mailer's wife. Did the critical reputation, credibility, or perceived contribution of any of these men suffer more than a temporary glitch?