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The shiny illusionism of Krauss and Judd.(Rosalind Krauss, Donald Judd )

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From: Art Journal
Date: 20060322
Author:Raskin, David

 
If you stand right fronting and face to face with a fact, you will see 
the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and you 
will feel its sweet edge dividing you through your heart and marrow. 
--Henry David Thoreau, 1854

Heroes or Ghosts

In 1973 and 1977 Rosalind Krauss contemplated the paradoxical concept of the alter ego, "the way in which the picture of the self as a contained whole ... crumbles before the act of connecting with other selves--with other minds." (1) Both times she stopped short of reflecting on who her own alter ego might be. Had ...

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