#two part posts

[icannotgetoverbirds]

does anyone know if we have the cursed amulet tomorrow

[newnamesamecharlotte]

[vermiculated]

One sees in abstract expressionism the terrible aesthetic disadvantages of directness and consistency. Perhaps painting can do without the necessity of imitation; can it do without the possibility of distortion?

R Jarrell, "Against Abstract Expressionism." Kipling, Auden, and Co. New York, 1980. hbk, 287

[vermiculated]

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out—since our self-image is untenable—their false notions of us.

J Didion, “Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power” Vogue August 1 1961

[vermiculated]

Mendieta's "People Looking at Blood, Moffitt" (1973) poses this question in a particularly oblique, disturbing manner. In this piece, Mendieta spilled a large amount of what appeared to be chunky blood over a doorway and a sidewalk on an Iowa City street. Then she removed herself from the scene and, from a distance, photographed the reactions of various passersby. (The piece ended when a storekeeper took it upon himself to clean up the mess.)

M Nelson, The Art of Cruelty. New York, 2011. hbk, 79-80

[dougielombax]

What’s up with all these two-part posts popping up?

[aurorashard]

I love seeing a two part post where one of them has Way more notes than the other. Y'know, we all like our incomprehensible jokes here, so it's not unusual and always fun to see one removed from context by someone who doesn't know it's not a standalone. It's fun, too, to see a part alone, go "???" And then way later see them both together so the joke finally clicks. Uniquely Tumblr experience in my opinion.

[reasse]

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