{"id":1809,"date":"2010-07-10T10:03:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T17:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/07\/david_strigley_-_o\/"},"modified":"2010-07-10T10:03:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T17:03:25","slug":"david_strigley_-_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/07\/david_strigley_-_o.html","title":{"rendered":"David Shrigley &#8211; I&#8217;m dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Graham-Dixon on David Shrigley&#8217;s contribution to the Tate Britain&#8217;s new exhibition, <i>Rude Britannia: British Comic Art<\/i>, an indignant yet deceased feline on a plinth:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This defiantly ambiguous object could be seen in a number of ways. Is it<br \/>\nDamien Hirst redone as taxidermical stand-up comedy (its theme, after<br \/>\nall, is pretty well identical to the title Hirst gave to his original,<br \/>\nSaatchi-sponsored shark in formaldehyde, namely <i>The Physical<br \/>\nImpossibility of Death in the Mind of <strike>Something<\/strike> Someone Living<\/i>)? Or is it Monty<br \/>\nPython&#8217;s <i>Dead Parrot<\/i> sketch reworked as a piece of Conceptual Art?<br \/>\nThen again, if Cedar Lewisohn is right, maybe Monty Python&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE\">parrot<br \/>\nsketch<\/a> was a piece of Conceptual Art in the first place. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewgrahamdixon.com\/archive\/readArticle\/769\">more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"davidshrigleydead.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/davidshrigleydead.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"516\" width=\"407\" \/> <\/p>\n<div>Not in the show but could have been, Liz Arnold&#8217;s white cat on a different mission. (<i>Vicky Park<\/i>, 1997) Arnold died at 36 in 2001 of ovarian cancer. Graham-Dixon&#8217;s appreciation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewgrahamdixon.com\/archive\/readArticle\/595\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lizarnoldcat.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/lizarnoldcat.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"257\" width=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Graham-Dixon on David Shrigley&#8217;s contribution to the Tate Britain&#8217;s new exhibition, Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, an indignant yet deceased feline on a plinth: This defiantly ambiguous object could be seen in a number of ways. Is it Damien Hirst redone as taxidermical stand-up comedy (its theme, after all, is pretty well identical to [&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-1809","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\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}