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from Nihilism in Art
  • It's a theme in Stoppard. In Travesties, Tristan Tzara is a main character and the deliberately meaninglessness quality of his art is examined.
from Weird Studies/Duchamp
  • Reminded me of Travesties, in which the nature of art is discussed and batted about explicitly between James Joyce, Tristan Tzara, and the befuddled non-artist protagonist. Funniest thing ever. Also The Metamorphosis of Shit which includes a discussion of Duchamp's work.
from Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
  • This exaltation of art makes me want to go all Henry Carr. It's elevating it into something sacred and religious, and I'm sort of down on all that, attitudinally. Trying to be less so. otl

Travesties

09 Oct 2022 - 19 Nov 2023
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    • Stoppard play, and one of my favorites, I've seen it live at least twice and have the script kind of memorized. Maybe it's the name.
    • I can sort of see myself in the narrator, Henry Carr, a pompous twit blithering on about his youth when he hobnobbed with people of significance – getting their meanings and memories all scrambled in the process.
    • But I digress. No apologies required, constant digression being the saving grace of senile reminescence.
    • I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can’t be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary... I forget the third thing.
    • Artists have a chit from Matron – for life (paraphrasing)
    • My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.