{"id":107170,"date":"2017-01-30T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=107170"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:52:08","slug":"the-raging-flood-and-the-peaceful-pond-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/30\/the-raging-flood-and-the-peaceful-pond-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raging Flood and the Peaceful Pond, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_107171\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/broken1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107171\" class=\"wp-image-107171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/broken1.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/broken1.jpg 1378w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/broken1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/broken1-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/broken1-1024x570.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-107171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Smithson, <i>Broken Circle\/Spiral Hill<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Ware has been reading a lot of <em>Krazy Kat<\/em>, as we all should in these trying times. In the Kat and his creator, George Harriman, Ware sees a tacit African American tradition: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/29\/to-walk-in-beauty-george-herriman-krazy-kat\/\">Krazy Kat <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/29\/to-walk-in-beauty-george-herriman-krazy-kat\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been described as a parable of love, a metaphor for democracy, a \u2018surrealistic\u2019 poem, unfolding over years and years<\/a>. It is all of these, but so much more: it is a portrait of America, a self-portrait of Herriman, and, I believe, the first attempt to paint the full range of human consciousness in the language of the comic strip \u2026 I may be in the minority here, but I really think that most if not all readers of\u00a0<em>Krazy Kat <\/em>during Herriman\u2019s lifetime would have had a hard time thinking of Krazy as anything <em>but<\/em>\u00a0African American. Krazy\u2019s patois, social status, stereotypical \u2018happy-go-lucky despite it all\u2019 disposition all funnel into a rather pointed African American identity.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Smithson\u2019s <em>Broken Circle\/Spiral Hill <\/em>is classic land art: it\u2019s dirt and sand and raw geology, and it\u2019s all fun and games until someone decides to sell it. Phyllis Tuchman visited the work in the Netherlands, musing on its history and the difficulty its owner faces in passing it on: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/27\/arts\/design\/robert-smithson-earthwork-art.html?smid=tw-nytimesarts&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=1&amp;mtrref=undefined&amp;mtrref=www.nytimes.com&amp;gwh=6F47D59837541FF2F8B9969AA1CF854E&amp;gwt=pay\" target=\"_blank\">At 6-foot-3 and often dressed all in black like a character in the B-movies he watched on West 42nd Street, Smithson cut a striking figure<\/a>. His prescription aviator glasses, slicked-back brown hair, blue-gray eyes and pockmarked skin completed the persona he projected \u2026 Unlike his colleagues, Smithson accompanied his earthworks with films, which made them accessible to people who couldn\u2019t travel to see them. But his death at age thirty-five in a plane crash in 1973 prevented the completion of the film of <em>Broken Circle\/Spiral Hill<\/em> until 2011. In it, we learn how Smithson\u2019s artwork relates to both the prehistoric past as well as more recent times \u2026 \u2018Between violence and calm is lucid understanding and perception,\u2019 Smithson also said in <em>Arts<\/em> magazine in 1971. \u2018What goes on between the raging flood and the peaceful pond? I hope to make that an aspect of the film on <em>Broken Circle\/Spiral Hill<\/em>.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron Giovannone thinks that poets should break their silence about money: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/poetry-should-talk-honestly-about-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">North American poets have to stop pretending that money doesn\u2019t matter to them, or that it makes no difference in their lives<\/a>. Businesses and institutions have now borrowed precisely this idea from the arts, banking on the amenability of grad students, interns, and contract employees to work \u2018for the love of it.\u2019 At a union meeting at my college, the chair of the business department announced that she didn\u2019t think contract professors should be paid so much (we make about 60 percent of what tenured faculty do). The contract professors she has hired, the chair explained, do it as a public service.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dennis Duncan looks back at the career of Harry Mathews, who died last week and remains\u00a0one of the only American member of Oulipo, the experimental French literary group: \u201c\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/the-american-oulipian\/\" target=\"_blank\">As an American embedded in French literary culture it was natural that translation, and its problems, should have been a cornerstone in Mathews\u2019s writing<\/a>. His fiction is peppered with strange, made-up languages: Pagolak, which can\u2019t be translated; the three-word languages of Oho and Uha; the supposedly south-east Asian Pan, in which portions of Mathews\u2019s third novel,\u00a0<em>The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium<\/em>, are written. One of his characters muses, \u2018The longer I live\u2014the longer I write\u2014the stronger becomes my conviction that translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.\u2019 It is hard not to read this as Mathews himself thinking out loud.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Writers: if you feel that mere words aren\u2019t enough to move the political needle, you might consider starting a shadowy cabal instead. A couple of British authors, Douglas Jerrold and Hugh Pollard, banded together before the Spanish Civil War, and their intervention may have kick-started the whole thing\u2014Danuta Kean and Chris Sch\u00fcler explain, \u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/jan\/27\/two-english-authors-engineered-start-of-spanish-civil-war-claims-new-book\" target=\"_blank\">In 1936, Jerrold got together over lunch at Simpson\u2019s in the Strand with an aeronautical engineer and\u00a0Louis Bolin, the London correspondent of a Spanish nationalist newspaper<\/a> \u2026 Together they hatched a plot to charter a light aircraft to the Canaries for what looked like a holiday jaunt. But it wasn\u2019t.\u2019 What the three planned was to help Franco\u2014who had been stationed on the island by the government in order to neuter his power\u2014to reach his troops and lead a coup. Jerrold phoned Pollard, an old friend of notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, and arranged for a plane to take them on the supposed jaunt. To add credibility to the trip, Pollard recruited his daughter Diana and her friend Dorothy Watson, whom Jerrold noted \u2018kept her cigarettes in her knickers,\u2019 adding approvingly: \u2018Obviously she was the type that went to Africa.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: a major work of land art is for sale; Chris Ware on Krazy Kat; why poets should talk money; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[27001,2546,131,26999,8600,27000,10548,1080,165,8715,3056],"class_list":["post-107170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-broken-circlespiral-hill","tag-chris-ware","tag-comics","tag-george-harriman","tag-harry-mathews","tag-krazy-kat","tag-land-art","tag-money","tag-poetry","tag-robert-smithson","tag-spanish-civil-war"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Land Art for Sale: Buying and Selling Robert Smithson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In today\u2019s arts and culture news roundup: a major work of land art is for sale; 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