Friday, June 21, 2024

Bleaney - Holzer - Lynes - Sherman

John Bleaney
High Falutin' Card Deck: Laurie Anderson
c1985-
offset-print-
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

John Bleaney
High Falutin' Card Deck: Diane Arbus
ca. 1985
offset print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

John Bleaney
High Falutin' Card Deck: Cindy Sherman
ca. 1985
offset print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

John Bleaney
High Falutin' Card Deck: Jenny Holzer
ca. 1985
offset print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jenny Holzer
Selection from the Living Series
1980-82
enamel on metal
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jenny Holzer
Selection from the Living Series
1980-82
enamel on metal
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jenny Holzer
Selection from the Living Series
1980-82
enamel on metal
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jenny Holzer
Enclosure (Deep Red)
2006
oil on linen (two panels)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

George Platt Lynes
R.X. McCarthy and John Leapheart
1952
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

George Platt Lynes
R.X. McCarthy and John Leapheart
1952
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

George Platt Lynes
Robert McVoy
ca. 1941
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

George Platt Lynes
Tex Smutney and Buddy Stanley
1941
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Cindy Sherman
Untitled #72
1980
C-print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #35
1979
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #46
1979
gelatin silver print
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #52
1979
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from The Quest

Suppose he's listened to the erudite committee,
He would have only found where not to look;
Suppose his terrier when he whistled had obeyed,
It would not have unearthed the buried city;
Suppose he had dismissed the careless maid,
The cryptogram would not have fluttered from the book.

"It was not I," he cried as, healthy and astounded,
He stepped across a predecessor's skull;
"A nonsense jingle simply came into my head
And left the intellectual Sphinx dumbfounded;
I won the Queen because my hair was red;
The terrible adventure is a little dull."

Hence Failure's torment: "Was I doomed in any case,
Or would I not have failed had I believed in Grace?"

– W.H. Auden (1940)