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Bill Powers & Richard Prince

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WEIRD COMICS (vol. 1) #14 (May, 1941).

Despite finally pushing The Dart and Ace out of the coveted cover position, The Eagle - who moved over from Science Comics - was relegated to the third story in the book. The Dart and Ace remained the lead feature.

In the process of moving to Weird Comics The Eagle lost half of his costume (which actually changed in every single one of his appearances; at one point he looked like a caped Blue Beetle); he was now shirtless.

As uncomfortable as that might be, he still wore more than his "appeared-out-of-nowhere" sidekick, Buddy "The Dare-Devil Boy." That kid's costume consisted of a wife-beater undershirt and blue boxer shorts.

Sure, some might argue that Buddy is dressed for a track-and-field event, but it still looks like he's running around in his underwear. I mean, more so than most superheroes/sidekicks.

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Chan Marshall (Cat Power) and singer songwriter Bill Callahan by Bill Powers back in the 90s

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The Eagle

pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Eagle_(Fox)

Creator(s): Lester Raye

Alias(es): Captain Bill “Ted” Powers

1st Issue w/Uniform: Science Comics #7

Year/Month of Publication: 1940/08

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Life's Mentor

Life’s Mentor

A WWII Marine veteran became a life’s mentor

“Tim, I would like you to meet a good friend of mine, this is Bill Powers.”My father- in-law gestured to me with a nod toward his long time friend. I felt his vice like grip as we shook hands. I looked this veteran of World War II over. He was six foot one, a solid two hundred pounds. He had soft looking blue eyes. Wrinkles formed around the sides of…

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White Teen Upset His Black Schoolmates Are Walking Around Like They ‘Own the Place’ Threatens to Lynch Them In Response

White Teen Upset His Black Schoolmates Are Walking Around Like They ‘Own the Place’ Threatens to Lynch Them In Response

A Missouri school district is investigating after a student posted a racist rant threatening to lynch his Black schoolmates, the Springfield News-Leader reported.

The 20-second clip, posted to Snapchat on May 9, shows an unidentified white male student spewing profanity and racist slurs in a warning to Black students to “stay the f–k out of our locker room.” He goes on to accuse them of…

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Cliché (/ˈkliːʃeɪ/) is an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.

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The more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems. – Norbert Weiner

We imagine love notes to be sweet. We expect graduation speeches to be inspirational. When a cliche subverts our expectations, these tropes become less familiar and acquire some measure of uniqueness. In French, the term derives from a printing technique to make reproductions, giving the entire enterprise a perfume of Walter Benjamin. Not quite onomatopoeia – they say the word cliche comes from the sound of the printing plate stamping down. Click. Click. Cliche.

More important than its auditory beginnings, how should we define cliche today?

The betrayal of originality…. An overused motif…. Genericism as a byproduct of ubiquity….

I’ve heard the term or its stand-in breach conversations again and again. Mark Grotjahn talks about the foolishness of painting skulls after Basquiat. Cecily Brown confesses anxiety that The Raft of the Medusa might be too ridiculously famous to re-imagine in her own vernacular. Sam McKinniss goes the other direction, proclaiming that cliche is a cornerstone of his artistic practice and something to be celebrated. It’s also a funny free association game to play. If I say butterfly which artist is the first to come to mind? How about cowboy? A smiley face. Bumper stickers. Who owns the canoe? And is it truly owned or leased to buy? Joke paintings. The issue—in part—might be traced back to problems of hierarchy. Rewind to 17th century France, when the French Academy of Fine Arts compiled a list of pictorial categories by order of importance. History paintings held top ranking. Followed by portraitures. Then landscapes. And lastly genre paintings.

These organizing principles assigning value to subject matter naturally conceived sub-sets. Even the very idea of a summer group show has become a form of cliche.

So what better time to harvest “Cezanne’s Apple”—a snippet borrowed from Deleuze’s thoughts on cliche—than June through July. With this show, we hope to exploit the many facets of cliche: the self-portrait, the tribute painting, the nude, conceptual art.

Any rampant fetishization that may read as a shortcut to meaning or popularity is fair game. – Bill Powers

Cliche

Almine Rech Gallery New York, New York Wed 20 Jun 2018 to Sat 28 Jul 2018

The Observer Interview: Bill Powers - By Margaret Carrigan • 09/27/17