… or how not to take this too seriously
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture — it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
-- usually attributed to Elvis Costello, NME, 1983
Why Academic Writing Stinks in Chronicle of Higher Ed
Carol Diehl on impenetrable prose
WSJ's anti-intellectualism
Diehl's Parsing Martspeak
relax with Hennessy Youngman
John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism of French Philosophy
Artist Statements of the Old Masters from John Seed
A serious – and helpful – review of the Artist Statement throughout history
by Jennifer Liese
About artists' statements, she says, many of the genre’s most depressing examples seem to be written as if the writer is trying—and failing—to emulate some kind of “correct” model, one which he or she has never actually set eyes on. Artists have become convinced they’re supposed to say “my work explores the notion of self-reflexivity” rather than “I paint about paintings,” but they aren’t sure why."
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture — it's a really stupid thing to want to do."
-- usually attributed to Elvis Costello, NME, 1983
Why Academic Writing Stinks in Chronicle of Higher Ed
Carol Diehl on impenetrable prose
WSJ's anti-intellectualism
Diehl's Parsing Martspeak
relax with Hennessy Youngman
John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism of French Philosophy
Artist Statements of the Old Masters from John Seed
A serious – and helpful – review of the Artist Statement throughout history
by Jennifer Liese
About artists' statements, she says, many of the genre’s most depressing examples seem to be written as if the writer is trying—and failing—to emulate some kind of “correct” model, one which he or she has never actually set eyes on. Artists have become convinced they’re supposed to say “my work explores the notion of self-reflexivity” rather than “I paint about paintings,” but they aren’t sure why."
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