Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life

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An incisive exploration of the still life genre as artists have rediscovered and reshaped it in the 20th century, Objects of Desire proves that despite the century's hostility toward older aesthetic conventions, avant-garde artists of many schools have made of the still life a vital opportunity for invention. From Matisse, Picasso, and Braque to the Dadaists, Surrealists, and Pop artists and finally to contemporary creators like Cindy Sherman and Charles Ray, the still life has hardly led a stolid, stable, or staunch existence. Originally a subject reserved for painting, the genre has progressively invaded the arena of sculpture, its themes reinvented in the provocative assemblages called "readymades," its forms recast continuously into the present. Published to accompany a major 1997 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Objects of Desire traces a radical rethinking of the genre in terms of subject matter and formal invention.

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Dilbert in the Artplace.......2006-11-02

While doing research for an essay on the "Search for Postmodernism in a Modernist World," I purchased Ms Rowell's book, curiously titled Objects of Desire. At the very least, it was a questionable investment. However, it is indicative of what is wrong with the world of modern art [or even postmodern art] where pretentious jargon takes the place of actual description, reason or discussion as an excuse for art works that in the end are just boring.

At the time of the book's publication, Ms Rowell was allegedly a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her explanation of Postmodernism gets at the heart of the matter in such a way that I am compelled to quote her at length, in particular her explanation regarding the bridge between pastiche and schizophrenia:

"The possibility of pastiche -- its neutrality and blankness - presupposes that individualism is dead. The copy is impersonal; the model is either indifferent, forgotten, or never existed. High modernism, however, was "predicated on the invention of a personal private style... This means that the modernist aesthetic is in some way a unique personality and individuality, which can be expected to generate its own unique vision of the world, and to forge its own unique, unmistakable style." Yet today, scientists, social scientists, and cultural critics are "exploring the notion that that [sic] kind of individualism and personal identity is a thing of the past; that the old individual or individualist subject is `dead'; and that one might even describe the concept of the unique individual and the theoretical basis of individualism as ideological." Thus the old models of modernism are no longer viable. As we know, schizophrenia is defined as a basic breakdown of relationships - because objects in a perceptual field, for example and between words and their meaning or content, or between words and each other as a continuous fabric of meaning in a linguistic system. As a result, the schizophrenic has no concept of time as linear, interconnected, and sequential, and none either of personal identity as a selection and interrelation of certain specific human potentials at the expense of others. Conversely, because the schizophrenic does not (indeed cannot) search for meaning behind the object, behind the word, or within the unhierarchical unfolding of the field of experience, he or she has an experience of the present and of its objects that is "overwhelmingly vital and `material'... ever more material - or better still, literal - ever more vivid in sensory ways." ... Pashtiching the objects of desire of our traditional landscape, they set a film of meaning (or nonmeaning) between themselves and ourselves. In their deliberate displacement and disconnection from familiar circuits of meaning - whether aesthetic or real - these surrogates or simulacra embody another register of experience, that of the signs and systems of the postmodern world." [Rowell, 194-195]

Is there anything more that can be added after such an erudite analysis? Perhaps there is. However, the analysis does cause one to ask a number of questions. Did anyone buy this book for anything other than the pictures? How does one get a job as a curator in a major museum? And more to the point, was there an editor, or was the editor on vacation when page after page of turgid, incoherent and virtually incomprehensible pseudo-intellectualism made its way to print? Or perhaps this presentation is meant to be a literary representation of Postmodernism, most likely a parody of postmodern Deconstructionist style. One can only hope that this is satire - the world of Dilbert in the "artplace." Dramatic readings of her text have provided considerable entertainment for my friends and family, who found it quite amusing.

Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life

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Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life
Margit Rowell
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Meryl and Diane Kagan Joseph
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Who won second place at Omaha?: A journey
Diane Kagan
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"A trucker got his rig caught under a low overpass and a cop comes along. 'You get your rig stuck?' 'Nope,' says the trucker. 'I was delivering this overpass and ran out of gas.' Here's Your Sign!"

More than the other three members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Bill appeals to women and his routines center around family relationships. In addition to more than 200 of Bill Engvall's favorite "Here's Your Sign," jokes, at least 50 of which will be illustrated, this book contains Bill's funniest product warnings such as the fan-belt package that says, "Stop motor before applying the product," and a few of his best stories.

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...here's your sign..........2006-06-10

After watching Blue Collar Comedy Tour (The Movie) many times, I was disappointed with the book. I'm a huge fan of bill Engvall's Here's Your Sign segment on the movie, but the book just wasn't the same. It's funnier on TV when you can hear Bill Engvall's voice, and the audience reaction. The jokes in the book just weren't that funny, partially because they weren't delivered live.

I did enjoy the segments with personal stories, as opposed to Here's Your Sign jokes. The personal jokes were very funny, and I laughed a lot.

This book is one you'll kind of have to flip through...reading it straight through gets boring.

Laugh till it hurts.......2006-03-09

When I read this book I thought I was going to hurt myself. The next best thing to this book is seeing Bill Engvall in person.

Down Home Funny.......2005-10-05

As I read this book, I could hear Mr. Engvall's voice. His delivery and timing are as good in his writing as in his shows. You will find a piece of yourself in many of these hilarious stories. Highly recommended.

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You may have the wrong salesperson if ... with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, here are 35 sure signs that there's deadwood on your sales staff.(POWER SELLING) ... from: Printed Circuit Design & Manufacture

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Release Date: 2005-07-25

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Uva's Guide To Cranes, Dollies, and Remote Heads is a comprehensive guide to all the latest equipmentwhat it is, how to use it and where to find it. This new book is designed to provide the more experienced professional with a streamlined reference to the equipment without the how-to information beginners require. Like the Grip Book 2E, it lists standards and features of all the different types of equipment covered, and with the recent explosion of new equipment introduced into the film industry this reference is invaluable!

As a reference guide, Uva's Guide To Cranes, Dollies and remote heads provides must-have information for a larger group of film professionals. Producers, directors, and DPs, and others responsible for securing equipment for a project will consider this an indispensable tool that will become an industry standard.

Comprehensive guide to all the latest equipmentOffers a streamlined reference to the equipment without the how-to information beginners requireAccessible to Directors, Producers, Production managers, and DPs, as well as to Grips and other film technicians

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Uva's Guide To Cranes, Dollies, and Remote Heads.......2006-11-14

This book is not really a guide, its a selection of specs and line drawings that you could get online from the manufactures

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The biographer of Johnny Thunders, New York Dolls and Peter Perrett turns her attention to the heyday of glam rock. As a timid teenager, Antonia weaves her childhood memories of growing up as a glam-obsessed girl in Liverpool, to the time she actually got to meet her idols-Iggy, Thunders et al. A provocative girl's eye view of the boys in make-up.

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Good, but Brett's story deserves better than this.......2006-07-23

Though I enjoy Nina's book here, after meeting and talking to Brett personally, I must be frank:HIS story is simply TOO GOOD to be muddied up by Nina's rather boring attempt at a "memoir" here.

Nina really does not have(for my money)a particularly interesting personal story to tell. It's pretty typical of British youth at that time, and she offers no real inspiring insights in the telling of it. To that point, all I can say is that if she thinks HER youth was soul-crushing then she should have tried MINE on for size.

On the other hand, BRETT'S story is anything BUT mundane. It is too many things to sum up in just one word, but INSPIRING certainly leaps to my mind. Brett is a born storyteller:animated, funny, insightful and refreshingly candid. After talking to him, I can only hope that someday he writes HIS OWN biography;it will be WELL WORTH READING!

I give this four stars, for the parts dealing with Brett's story. Nina's story, IMHO, rates a ZERO. HOWEVER, I do congratulate her for writing this, thereby helping to awaken new interest in Brett-both personal and professional-to the general public. To borrow a quote from David Johansen, Brett is surely a "miracle of God's creation!"

A Superb Music Trash-Burn Memoir.......2006-04-05

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Magnificent.......2000-03-30

This book is great if you like Julia Roberts, or want to knowmore about her life. I definetly recommened it. END

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Little known retirement bombshells.......2007-08-16

This book outlines what boomers (and others) should know about their retirement finances. Few know what the problems might be when they transfer or start accessing retirement money. Fewer still will bother to find out and even fewer will act on the information. What "The Retirement Savings Time Bomb.." discusses is how to prevent unneccessary taxable acts when accessing the money and even how to access funds early (before 59 1/2). Finally, he talks over reasons for converting a regular IRA to a Roth IRA if it makes economic sense and how to minimize taxation in the long run. If I have one critical comment about the book, I feel the information is directed toward individuals who have more retirement savings than I. Regardless, I still will benefit from the information provided.

Complicated Laws Made Accessible.......2007-03-11

Who would have thought that something as simple-sounding as an IRA would require care and feeding and attention to avoid a huge tax consequence down the road. Ed Slott holds your hand through an extremely detailed explanation of the complicated and changing maze of our IRS Code that can cost you much of your investment's earnings if you don't know how to navigate. And just when you thought you were beginning to understand the beast, he unveils yet another aspect of the law that's waiting to reach out and grab you. You'll refer to his richly loaded chapters again and again as you plan and construct your financial defenses.

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Retirement Savings Time Bomb.......2007-01-09

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