{"id":1390,"date":"2009-12-17T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/12\/john_ashery_-_we_as_mackerel\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T13:36:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:36:31","slug":"john_ashery_-_we_as_mackerel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/12\/john_ashery_-_we_as_mackerel.html","title":{"rendered":"John Ashbery – the question of disgust"},"content":{"rendered":"

In John Ashbery<\/a>‘s River of the Canoefish<\/a>,<\/i> mackerel echo their meaning in Yeats<\/a>‘ Sailing to Byzantium<\/i><\/a>, but with Ashbery’s own note of revulsion for the mindless forces of biology:<\/p>\n

\nYeats:<\/p>\n

\n

That is no country for old men. The young
\nIn one another’s arms, birds in the trees
\n—Those dying generations—at their song,
\nThe salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
\nFish, flesh, or fowl commend all summer long
\nWhatever is begotten, born, and dies.
\nCaught in that sensual music all neglect
\nMonuments of unageing intellect.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ashbery:<\/p>\n

\n

Today they are as abundant as mackerel, as far as the eye can see,
tumbled, tumescent, tinted all the colors of the rainbow
though not in the same order,
a swelling, scumbled mass, rife with incident
and generally immune to sorrow.
Shall we gather at the river? On second thought, let’s not. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In Ashbery’s honor, a small survey of the art of disgust. Shall we gather at the river? On second thought, let’s not.<\/i><\/p>\n

Marc Quinn, SELF (red)<\/i><\/a>, 2006<\/p>\n

\"marcquinnfish.jpg\"Katy Stone, Explosion 7 (double bloom)<\/i><\/a>, 2006
\nAcrylic on Duralar, pins<\/p>\n

\"katystonefish.jpg\"Grant Barnhart, 1938<\/i><\/a> Acrylic on canvas, 2009<\/p>\n

\"grantbarnhart38.jpg\"Jon Haddock  R.King – Screenshot Series<\/i><\/a>
\n2000
\nchromogenic print from digital file created in photoshop<\/p>\n

\"jonhaddockrking.jpg\"Nigel Cooke, Mind<\/i><\/a>, 2008 Oil\/Canvas<\/p>\n

\"nigelcookemind.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In John Ashbery‘s River of the Canoefish, mackerel echo their meaning in Yeats‘ Sailing to Byzantium, but with Ashbery’s own note of revulsion for the mindless forces of biology: Yeats: That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees —Those dying generations—at their song, The salmon-falls, the […]<\/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-1390","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\/1390","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=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}