http://badatsports.com/2008/national-gallery-of-victoria-buys-a-van-gogherr-a-rubens-wait-is-it-a-gavin-turk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Contemporay art talk without the ego Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://badatsports.com/2008/national-gallery-of-victoria-buys-a-van-gogherr-a-rubens-wait-is-it-a-gavin-turk/comment-page-1/#comment-79370 Mark Staff Brandl Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:55:25 +0000 http://badatsports.com/2008/national-gallery-of-victoria-buys-a-van-gogherr-a-rubens-wait-is-it-a-gavin-turk/#comment-79370 I can say that this is typical, having a good knowledge of the field with my hat as an art historian on. Whenever someone doesn't have a genuinely good idea, or has no real eye for special quality, or can't even latch onto trendy vocabularly well enough, they inevitably go for revisionism. Trying to get attention simply by saying something is not what it has been thought to be. The worst versions of this we all know: the "Shakespeare didn't exist" stuff, the da Vinci code, Jesus' family grave,etc., but it happens in art history almost monthly at this level too. Bad scholarship verging on, or incorporating, conspiracy theories or simple nay-saying to solid scholarship. If naught else, at least you get in the papers for a year or so. My favorite parody of this was how Woodie Allen in his stand-up comedy act proved that HE himself had written all of Shakespeare's work I can say that this is typical, having a good knowledge of the field with my hat as an art historian on. Whenever someone doesn’t have a genuinely good idea, or has no real eye for special quality, or can’t even latch onto trendy vocabularly well enough, they inevitably go for revisionism. Trying to get attention simply by saying something is not what it has been thought to be. The worst versions of this we all know: the “Shakespeare didn’t exist” stuff, the da Vinci code, Jesus’ family grave,etc., but it happens in art history almost monthly at this level too. Bad scholarship verging on, or incorporating, conspiracy theories or simple nay-saying to solid scholarship. If naught else, at least you get in the papers for a year or so. My favorite parody of this was how Woodie Allen in his stand-up comedy act proved that HE himself had written all of Shakespeare’s work

]]> http://badatsports.com/2008/national-gallery-of-victoria-buys-a-van-gogherr-a-rubens-wait-is-it-a-gavin-turk/comment-page-1/#comment-79344 vanrijngo Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:25:06 +0000 http://badatsports.com/2008/national-gallery-of-victoria-buys-a-van-gogherr-a-rubens-wait-is-it-a-gavin-turk/#comment-79344 All this bullshit in itself about these MFA experts quibbling over whether a five million dollar van Gogh is real or not, after the painting having been one for all these years, does show me what ignorant blind assholes they really are. You keep your eyes on my blog site, and in the near future I will have proof of who this man in this painting really was, when it was painted in Paris France, the year that it was painted, and by who. The only problem you'll have with it,.... you will not be able to take that to the bank. vanrijngo All this bullshit in itself about these MFA experts quibbling over whether a five million dollar van Gogh is real or not, after the painting having been one for all these years, does show me what ignorant blind assholes they really are. You keep your eyes on my blog site, and in the near future I will have proof of who this man in this painting really was, when it was painted in Paris France, the year that it was painted, and by who. The only problem you’ll have with it,…. you will not be able to take that to the bank.
vanrijngo

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