Thomas Repensek
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Repensek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Repensek |
| SIGNATURE | REPENSEK T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Index of the Absent Wound (Monograph on a Stain)
It is a large piece of linen serge, covered with stains. Lined with red silk (one side is therefore covered over), it has been carefully rolled up and placed in a silver reliquary. The reliquary itself is locked behind a metal grating within a monumental altar that stands beneath Guarini's soaring black marble dome in Turin. None of the sheet (lenzuolo) itself, therefore, is visible. One kneels before a photographic negative, as it were, enshrine…
Francis Picabia: From Dada to Petain
Biographers are fixated on their heroes in a very peculiar manner. They frequently select the hero as the object of study because, for personal reasons of their own emotional life, they had a special affection for him from the very outset. They then devote themselves to a work of idealization, which strives to enroll the great man among their infantile models, and to revive through him, as it were, their infantile conception of the father. For th…
The "Dodecadedale", or in Praise of Heuristics
Ryman's Tact
The question-despite its rhetorical flavor-must be asked at the very outset: why is it so hard to write about Robert Ryman's work? Aren't his paintings themselves-preeminently anti-illusionist, flatly literal-all the explanation the viewer or critic needs to penetrate their ineffable silence? Don't they reveal what they're made of, proudly, with a kind of routine generosity, thereby cutting short any attempt at associative readings? Simply, don't…
A Conversation
The New Adventures of the Avant-Garde in America: "Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the "Vital Center
Chereau's Treachery
In program for 1977 Bayreuth Festival superb photographs of '76 Ring were published alongside quotations which testified to hostility that Bayreuth productions have provoked over last 100 years: ... German people have nothing in common with this disgraceful incompetence .. . (1876); Another kind of centenary-100 years of Bayreuth under attack (1976). In his brief introductory text, Wolfgang Wagner wrote, The arguments have scarcely changed over y…
Pasolini: Murder of a Dissident
Pasolini was killed November 1, 1974. Several days later I spoke out in Le Monde: Crime is political. Pasolini was assassinated by society in a savage act of self-defense, a society which could not bear his defiance (of sexual, political, and artistic prohibitions), his undisguised equation of commitment and life. The hatred unleashed against him was expressed in the staging of the crime: a public execution, at high noon, so that everyone might s…
Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren
Any work may be read, and there are many ways to read a work. This does not imply that all possible readings may be applied to every work, nor that every reading may be applied to all works. Neither does it mean that the act of interpretation has lost its value. Rather it announces the disintegration of critical typologies, a breakdown in the conventions that separate kinds of interpretation. As the contemporary arts can no longer be organized an…
Stuart Sherman: Object Ritual
Since 1974 Sherman has been giving performances, usually unaccompanied, sometimes with other participants, in the lofts of lower Manhattan and on the street in various locations around the city. He has completed his Eleventh Spectacle as well as two other presentations that have not been numbered. Most of his performances, executed in silence with an almost religious concentration, consist of the manipulation, generally on a fragile little foldin…
The Function of the Studio
Of all the frames, envelopes, and limits-usually not perceived and certainly never questioned-which enclose and constitute the work of art (picture frame, niche, pedestal, palace, church, gallery, museum, art history, economics, power, etc.), there is one rarely even mentioned today that remains of primary importance: the artist's studio. Less dispensable to the artist than either the gallery or the museum, it precedes both. Moreover, as we shall…
My Life as a Photographer
The Index of the Absent Wound (Monograph on a Stain)
It is a large piece of linen serge, covered with stains. Lined with red silk (one side is therefore covered over), it has been carefully rolled up and placed in a silver reliquary. The reliquary itself is locked behind a metal grating within a monumental altar that stands beneath Guarini's soaring black marble dome in Turin. None of the sheet (lenzuolo) itself, therefore, is visible. One kneels before a photographic negative, as it were, enshrine…
My Life as a Photographer
The New Adventures of the Avant-Garde in America: "Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the "Vital Center
The Function of the Studio
Of all the frames, envelopes, and limits-usually not perceived and certainly never questioned-which enclose and constitute the work of art (picture frame, niche, pedestal, palace, church, gallery, museum, art history, economics, power, etc.), there is one rarely even mentioned today that remains of primary importance: the artist's studio. Less dispensable to the artist than either the gallery or the museum, it precedes both. Moreover, as we shall…
Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren
Any work may be read, and there are many ways to read a work. This does not imply that all possible readings may be applied to every work, nor that every reading may be applied to all works. Neither does it mean that the act of interpretation has lost its value. Rather it announces the disintegration of critical typologies, a breakdown in the conventions that separate kinds of interpretation. As the contemporary arts can no longer be organized an…
Ryman's Tact
The question-despite its rhetorical flavor-must be asked at the very outset: why is it so hard to write about Robert Ryman's work? Aren't his paintings themselves-preeminently anti-illusionist, flatly literal-all the explanation the viewer or critic needs to penetrate their ineffable silence? Don't they reveal what they're made of, proudly, with a kind of routine generosity, thereby cutting short any attempt at associative readings? Simply, don't…
A Conversation
Pasolini: Murder of a Dissident
Pasolini was killed November 1, 1974. Several days later I spoke out in Le Monde: Crime is political. Pasolini was assassinated by society in a savage act of self-defense, a society which could not bear his defiance (of sexual, political, and artistic prohibitions), his undisguised equation of commitment and life. The hatred unleashed against him was expressed in the staging of the crime: a public execution, at high noon, so that everyone might s…
My Life as a Photographer
Preliminary Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren
Any work may be read, and there are many ways to read a work. This does not imply that all possible readings may be applied to every work, nor that every reading may be applied to all works. Neither does it mean that the act of interpretation has lost its value. Rather it announces the disintegration of critical typologies, a breakdown in the conventions that separate kinds of interpretation. As the contemporary arts can no longer be organized an…
Stuart Sherman: Object Ritual
Since 1974 Sherman has been giving performances, usually unaccompanied, sometimes with other participants, in the lofts of lower Manhattan and on the street in various locations around the city. He has completed his Eleventh Spectacle as well as two other presentations that have not been numbered. Most of his performances, executed in silence with an almost religious concentration, consist of the manipulation, generally on a fragile little foldin…
The Function of the Studio
Of all the frames, envelopes, and limits-usually not perceived and certainly never questioned-which enclose and constitute the work of art (picture frame, niche, pedestal, palace, church, gallery, museum, art history, economics, power, etc.), there is one rarely even mentioned today that remains of primary importance: the artist's studio. Less dispensable to the artist than either the gallery or the museum, it precedes both. Moreover, as we shall…
A Conversation
The New Adventures of the Avant-Garde in America: "Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the "Vital Center
Chereau's Treachery
In program for 1977 Bayreuth Festival superb photographs of '76 Ring were published alongside quotations which testified to hostility that Bayreuth productions have provoked over last 100 years: ... German people have nothing in common with this disgraceful incompetence .. . (1876); Another kind of centenary-100 years of Bayreuth under attack (1976). In his brief introductory text, Wolfgang Wagner wrote, The arguments have scarcely changed over y…
Pasolini: Murder of a Dissident
Pasolini was killed November 1, 1974. Several days later I spoke out in Le Monde: Crime is political. Pasolini was assassinated by society in a savage act of self-defense, a society which could not bear his defiance (of sexual, political, and artistic prohibitions), his undisguised equation of commitment and life. The hatred unleashed against him was expressed in the staging of the crime: a public execution, at high noon, so that everyone might s…
Ryman's Tact
The question-despite its rhetorical flavor-must be asked at the very outset: why is it so hard to write about Robert Ryman's work? Aren't his paintings themselves-preeminently anti-illusionist, flatly literal-all the explanation the viewer or critic needs to penetrate their ineffable silence? Don't they reveal what they're made of, proudly, with a kind of routine generosity, thereby cutting short any attempt at associative readings? Simply, don't…
The "Dodecadedale", or in Praise of Heuristics
The Index of the Absent Wound (Monograph on a Stain)
It is a large piece of linen serge, covered with stains. Lined with red silk (one side is therefore covered over), it has been carefully rolled up and placed in a silver reliquary. The reliquary itself is locked behind a metal grating within a monumental altar that stands beneath Guarini's soaring black marble dome in Turin. None of the sheet (lenzuolo) itself, therefore, is visible. One kneels before a photographic negative, as it were, enshrine…
Francis Picabia: From Dada to Petain
Biographers are fixated on their heroes in a very peculiar manner. They frequently select the hero as the object of study because, for personal reasons of their own emotional life, they had a special affection for him from the very outset. They then devote themselves to a work of idealization, which strives to enroll the great man among their infantile models, and to revive through him, as it were, their infantile conception of the father. For th…
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