{"id":3578,"date":"2019-11-12T06:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2019-11-12T06:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:41:04","slug":"orphic-or-orphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3578","title":{"rendered":"orphic or Orphic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether to be offput, amused, informed&#8230; or just what by Andrea Scott&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/reframing-modernism-at-the-new-moma\">Reframing Modernism at the New MoMA<\/a>. On the one hand, I love the basic characterization in her report of &#8220;The Shape of Shape&#8221; exhibit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe ethos of the new MOMA\u2014to revise the myth of modern art as a triumphant procession of great white men and instead tell the glorious, untidy truth of a bunch of weird human beings&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>but I am less than charmed by <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the emphasis is on oddballs like Clough, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/works\/298509\">orphic 1985 painting \u201cStone\u201d<\/a> is included.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not Andrea Scott&#8217;s fault that I am left cold and baffled by the &#8220;orphic&#8221; tag on a piece that seems to me to have nothing discernable to do with Stone in the sense that I understand Rocks. I did have to explore the Lexicon a bit to figure out just which &#8220;orphic&#8221; she meant: there&#8217;s the mystic, the oracular; the fascinating, the entrancing; and the &#8220;having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence&#8221; (vocabulary.com). I&#8217;m going with the lattermost, which leaves Orpheus entirely out of the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure whether to be offput, amused, informed&#8230; or just what by Andrea Scott&#8217;s Reframing Modernism at the New MoMA. On the one hand, I love the basic characterization in her report of &#8220;The Shape of Shape&#8221; exhibit: The ethos of the new MOMA\u2014to revise the myth of modern art as a triumphant procession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-ot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}