Posts Tagged ‘Ovid’

Camille Paglia

Monday, May 4th, 1992

“Moment by moment, night flick­ers in the imag­i­na­tion, in eroti­cism, sub­vert­ing our striv­ings for virtue and order, giv­ing an uncan­ny aura to objects and per­sons, revealed to us by artists.” “The sea, Dionysian liq­uid nature, is the mas­ter image in Shake­speare’s plays. It is the wave-motion with­in Shake­speare­an speech which trans­fix­es the audi­ence even when we don’t under­stand a word of it.”

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The Unique Print

Sunday, December 9th, 1990

In mono­type, there is no fixed image on the print­ing sur­face. The artist paints or draws on a print­ing plate, makes changes, and prints again; the final proof is an accu­mu­la­tion of all the changes that have been made. Pale, fad­ed images of past impres­sions often cling to mono­types like shad­ows; they are called “ghosts.”

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