{"id":1419,"date":"2010-01-01T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/01\/christopher_knight_responds\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T01:39:11","slug":"christopher_knight_responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/01\/christopher_knight_responds.html","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Knight responds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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He’s replying to two items in this post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’m taking a
\nbreak from the Tournament of Roses–no sighting of Jeff Koons’ “Puppy”
\nyet–so two quick things. First, thanks for the kind words. Second,
\nyou’re wrong about Koons and about Cezanne.<\/p>\n

Koons career did not take a nose dive after the critical beating of
\n1991’s “Made in Heaven.” In a stand-alone article the New York Times
\nsaid of “Puppy,” his Documenta scene-stealer the following year, “The
\nwork seems intended to redeem his reputation in the wake of his
\ncontroversial exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York last
\nfall, dominated by pornographic paintings of the artist making love to
\nhis wife, the Italian porn-star Ciccolina.” The review’s author,
\nRoberta Smith (who knows Jerry Saltz), then rendered her verdict: ”
\n‘Puppy’ shows Mr. Koons at his goofy, innocent best…” Six months
\nlater a well-received mid-career Koons retrospective opened at the San
\nFrancisco Museum of Modern Art, and in 1993 it traveled to the Walker
\nArt Center. Few artists I know would consider a stand-alone rave in the
\nNYT followed by a retrospective hosted by SFMOMA and the Walker to
\nrepresent a period of career nose-dive.<\/p>\n

As for Cezanne: Hickey said nothing in his Smithsonian lecture about
\nwhere artists choose to live and work. He was speaking about art’s
\nreception, which was the reason I referred to his comments. Cezanne
\ncertainly did well painting at his remote cabin at Bib\u00e9mus Quarries,
\nfor example. But it was his posthumous 1907 retrospective at the Salon
\nd’Automne — in cosmopolitan Paris — that made him the most
\ninfluential artist of the early 20th century. Call me crazy, but had
\nthe show been mounted in a lovely village around Aix-en-Provence, that
\nprobably would not have been the outcome.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Pasadena, I just saw a giant, marigold-covered blowfish go by. Yikes!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s replying to two items in this post: I’m taking a break from the Tournament of Roses–no sighting of Jeff Koons’ “Puppy” yet–so two quick things. First, thanks for the kind words. Second, you’re wrong about Koons and about Cezanne. Koons career did not take a nose dive after the critical beating of 1991’s “Made […]<\/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-1419","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\/1419","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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}