{"id":861,"date":"2009-07-30T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/small_bright_birds\/"},"modified":"2009-07-30T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T12:00:00","slug":"small_bright_birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/small_bright_birds.html","title":{"rendered":"Birds in art (the enmity of crows)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a crow in my neighborhood who wants me dead. Its screams when it sees me are heart-stopping. Do I look like someone who kicked a chick? <\/p>\n

I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds<\/i> with a niece intent on seeing the classics. I wouldn’t have picked that one, but when the hapless human herd is strafed by birds, I thought of one whose venom might be keeping it up nights.<\/p>\n

Vanessa Renwick<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

\"vanesarenwichbird.jpg\"<\/span>Jean-Luc Mylayne<\/b><\/a> takes an entirely different view, offering a fusion of factual clarity and high romance. <\/p>\n

\"henryfrenchbird.jpg\"<\/span>Jessie Henson<\/a> liberates hers from embroidery.<\/p>\n

\"jessiejensonbird.jpg\"<\/span>Facts aren’t enough for Justin Gibbens<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

\"justingibbonsbird.jpg\"<\/span>Elizabeth Sandvig<\/a> is drawn to the avian world of improbable collaborations. <\/p>\n

\"elizabethsandvigbird.jpg\"<\/span>Mike Simi<\/b><\/a> takes his birds past Bladerunner<\/i>, into the realm of ordinary plastics.<\/p>\n

\"mikesimibird.jpg\"<\/span>Michael Spafford<\/b><\/a> ‘s have mystical powers.<\/p>\n

\"michaelspaffordbird.jpg\"<\/span>Anselm Kiefer<\/a>‘<\/b>s have read too much and forgotten how to fly. <\/p>\n

\"anslemkeiferbird.jpg\"<\/span>Mine hops up and down on the branches of a high tree. Once earned, the enmity of crows deepens and grows. <\/p>\n

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There’s a crow in my neighborhood who wants me dead. Its screams when it sees me are heart-stopping. Do I look like someone who kicked a chick? I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds with a niece intent on seeing the classics. I wouldn’t have picked that one, but when the hapless human herd is strafed […]<\/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-861","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\/861","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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}