tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post763637816886235048..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: Chairman Mao smiles down on William MorrisTony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-32698714655183840382015-09-11T11:58:34.768-07:002015-09-11T11:58:34.768-07:00I liked the connections between Morris and Warhol ...I liked the connections between Morris and Warhol that Jeremy Deller tried to make under the heading "mythology and romance", i.e., Hollywood is to the twentieth-century American artist what Arthurianism was to Morris and his Victorian circle, a place of extreme glamour and charisma, of dreams larger than life, so Marilyn Monroe equals Guenevere, and so on. As for Warhol's Mao, well, yes, I hadn't known he had done those images, so perhaps I'm over-emphasising them. But then, all interpretations involve hermeneutic violence and one-sidedness of some sort!Tony Pinkneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-2979130340917366492015-09-08T00:14:23.202-07:002015-09-08T00:14:23.202-07:00You've got some slightly odd aesthetic tastes,...You've got some slightly odd aesthetic tastes, Tony, perhaps to do with your personal political predilections (communism) coming through too strongly here. Surely most people's "abiding memory" of Deller's Birmingham show (which definitely seemed bigger and better than its Oxford version) will be the central room where the Morris/Burne-Jones Holy Grail tapestries surrounded us on three sides. Immensely impressive and haunting - "auratic", to use your term - even if Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe was on the fourth wall!Koticknoreply@blogger.com