#brian o'doherty

[garadinervi]

Brian O'Doherty (1928-2022)

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(image: Brian O'Doherty. Photograph: © George Tatge)

[antronaut]

Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland Word, Image and Institutional Critique

[antronaut]

Inside the White Cube The Ideology of the Gallery Space

[calling-out-of-context]

The Critic’s Boots (Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland), 1964-5

[versayshus]

Brian O’Doherty ‘Portrait of Marcel Duchamp’, 1966-67

electrocardiogram of Marcel Duchamps heart

[nomitigada]

Brian O'Doherty

The Body and Its Discontents, 1964, Mixed media, 10.5 x 28 x 4 cm

– From Electrocardiogram to Rope Drawing

[singingholy]

   —“I had dreams you couldn’t make head nor tail of. I’d be in the middle of a terrible tangle of guts and blood, twisting and turning with a life of their own. I’d see flayed bodies and torn limbs like in a knacker’s yard. (...)

It’s no wonder I began to melt away. Why had God put this heavy burden on my shoulders?”— 

So I read The Deposition Of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty (very good book by the way) and I got strangely attached to this poor sod. He absolutely deserves a break.