{"id":824,"date":"2009-07-19T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/liberating_art_from_text_1970s\/"},"modified":"2009-07-19T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T19:25:02","slug":"liberating_art_from_text_1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/liberating_art_from_text_1970s.html","title":{"rendered":"Beginning with Tom Phillips and back again: liberating art from text"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Phillips<\/a> began by finding his own lyrical poetry inside obscure Victorian text in 1970. (The Humument<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"tomphillipswords.jpg\"<\/span>Tim Rollins & Kids of Survival<\/a>, founded in 1982 (MoMA image<\/a>), engaged text in a battle.<\/p>\n

\"timrollinskidstext.jpg\"<\/span>Christopher Wool<\/a> (Apocalypse Now<\/i> 1988) amplified the impact of a classic line.<\/p>\n

\"christopherwoodsellkids.jpg\"<\/span>Glenn Ligon<\/a>  (Untitled (I Do Not Always Feel Colored)<\/i>, 1990), amplified it by obscuring it.
\"glennligonzora.jpg\"<\/span>Ann Hamilton turned the rudiments of text into a floor at the Seattle Central Library<\/a> in 2004.<\/p>\n

\"annhamiltonfloor.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Mary Ruefle’s A Little White Shadow<\/i><\/a> from 2006 (Wave Books<\/a>) circles back around to Phillips but with simplicity. Instead of elaborate painting on a Victorian story, she used white out. <\/p>\n

\"maryruefleerase.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tom Phillips began by finding his own lyrical poetry inside obscure Victorian text in 1970. (The Humument) Tim Rollins & Kids of Survival, founded in 1982 (MoMA image), engaged text in a battle. Christopher Wool (Apocalypse Now 1988) amplified the impact of a classic line. Glenn Ligon  (Untitled (I Do Not Always Feel Colored), 1990), […]<\/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-824","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\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}