{"id":1037,"date":"2009-09-10T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/scott_fife_cardboard_giants\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:08:58","slug":"scott_fife_cardboard_giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/scott_fife_cardboard_giants.html","title":{"rendered":"Scott Fife: Cardboard Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Elvis<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"scottfifeelvis.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/scottfifeelvis.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"492\" width=\"317\" \/><\/span>The rough scaffolding of Scott Fife&#8217;s cardboard construction allows for complexity within the portrait of a notable. As Lear replied to the Earl of Gloucester, who had asked to shake the king&#8217;s hand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<em><\/em>Let me wipe it first. It smells of mortality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, painting is pivotal. Without it, what would Elvis be? Flat for all his volume. The streak of the blues that run down a cheek, the pinks for bloom and bloodshot, the yellow dripping from glue: They make him bloom.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platformgallery.com\/current.html\">Platform Gallery<\/a> through Oct. 10.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis: The rough scaffolding of Scott Fife&#8217;s cardboard construction allows for complexity within the portrait of a notable. As Lear replied to the Earl of Gloucester, who had asked to shake the king&#8217;s hand: &nbsp;Let me wipe it first. It smells of mortality. And yet, painting is pivotal. Without it, what would Elvis be? Flat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}