Adorno and Aesthetics

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I have been reading Theodor Adorno of late, and in particular Brian O’Connor’s excellent introduction to his work. Here are a few of the many notes that I have taken on O’Connor’s book and others. I am particularily taken with his approach to ‘mimesis’. ‘Mimesis … is not another name for the subject-object relationship. It is the pre-conceptual human desire to …

Cindy Sherman

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As part of the pre-work for Informing Contexts in the MA program, we were asked to look at Cindy Sherman’s work, and answer 8 questions. I think that the first time we saw any of Sherman’s work in a gallery was in 1982, when she was 28. Ingrid and I went to most of the shows at the Stedelijk Museum …