#david shapiro

[garadinervi]

Cy Twombly: Coronation of Sesostris, (adv. in «Frieze» magazine), Gagosian, New York, NY, November 11, 2000 – January 27, 2001 [Art Books & Ephemera. Art: © Cy Twombly Foundation, New York, NY]

Catalogue: Cy Twombly: Coronation of Sesostris, Essay by David Shapiro, Gagosian, New York, NY, 2000

l'Altissimo

[soundgrammar]

David Shapiro, Untitled, 1972, drawing on paper, 29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Moses Lasky, 2004.32.16

[principleofplenitude]

If one saves a butterfly, has one saved the world? Rabbi says: If one saves one butterfly, even with long wings, one butterfly that has fallen into water, it may be said: “He has saved the whole world.” If one saves a motley moth, is it the same? Rabbi: It is valid. If one saves a dirty monkey from a flame, for example, it is as the saying is: He or she has saved the whole world. It is valid for all creatures, and not more so for the creatures who know how to recite the blessings. It is always valid, even on the Sabbath. It is said: The creatures of the sky are owned by no one, like the land. If one saves the Book from being destroyed, is it also saving a world? Rabbi: God forbid, yes, saving the book from the fire, saving the book or books from the fire, is known to be comparable. He who saves a book and he who writes a holy book, it should be said: They have saved the whole world like a book. If one saves a rose, one rose, from the garden of your dead Teacher, is it still appropriate to think: She has saved the world. The Rabbi was silent and seemed troubled. He replied: If the house of the great teacher is in ruins, and the garden is a scandal, and one saves one rose from his garden it is said even of one rose: It is like saving the world. It is also said the rose will grow as large as the world. —David Shapiro, "Song for Chaim"

[yama-bato]

David Shapiro (b. 1922),

Waterfall I (de-accessioned from the Denver Art Museum), 1979

[theegoist]

David Shapiro (American, 1944-2014) - Saki, mixed media on paper, 73.66 x 60.32 cm (1978)

[maaarine]

A psychodynamic view of action and responsibility (David Shapiro, 2017)

“The clearest cases of impulsive or reckless, sometimes even criminal, action that may easily be considered emblematic of such failure are the individuals we call psychopaths or sociopaths. 

These are people who are, as I have said, generally without a strong presence of stable, long-range aims and deep values or principles. 

Accordingly, they are very reactive to immediate circumstances, whether opportunities or provocations. 

On account of that they are likely to lead quite erratic lives, changing jobs, locations, relationships easily and often. 

From their standpoint an opportunity is not just an opportunity-to-be-considered. 

The immediacy of their reactions, the absence of reservations, gives it the quality of an actual enticement or a simple trigger of action. 

Thus, the thief says, “the money was just laying there.””

[doubtsandloves]

David Shapiro (American, b. 1944) - Winter Snow

[figureskatingcostumes]

David Shapiro's free program costume at the 2019 Junior US Nationals.

(Source: Skates U.S.)