{"id":1276,"date":"2009-11-13T00:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/11\/claire_cowie_in_a_medieval_vei\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T00:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T08:02:25","slug":"claire_cowie_in_a_medieval_vei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/11\/claire_cowie_in_a_medieval_vei.html","title":{"rendered":"Claire Cowie in a medieval vein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Dark Ages do not haunt a hearty strain of the contemporary imagination for its wars, famines, dreads and superstitions, but for its irrational certainties. Good and evil were as concrete in the world as a horse in a pasture, a baby crying in a house or a woman drowned in a well. By casting its shadow on the brightest of days, evil affirmed its presence. The struggle against it was constant, and risks extended into eternity. <\/p>\n<p>What did that world look like?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clairecowiedrkbirds.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/clairecowiedrkbirds.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"322\" width=\"413\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"clairecowiehung.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/clairecowiehung.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"307\" width=\"415\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Artists\/Claire%20Cowie\/cowie.html\">Claire Cowie<\/a>&#8216;s <i>The Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth <\/i>continues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gageacademy.org\/events\/?page=current&amp;type=5\">Gage Academy<\/a> through Saturday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/2009-stranger-genius-awards-shortlist-visual-art\/Content?oid=2708935\">Jen Graves<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Death has always stalked Claire Cowie&#8217;s paintings and sculptures, but lately she&#8217;s taken it in and given it a furnished room in the parallel universe she&#8217;s been building for years. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Dark Ages do not haunt a hearty strain of the contemporary imagination for its wars, famines, dreads and superstitions, but for its irrational certainties. Good and evil were as concrete in the world as a horse in a pasture, a baby crying in a house or a woman drowned in a well. By [&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-1276","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\/1276","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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}