The Library

I found out about this book from an interview with the Safdie Brothers. They said it changed their pov about film.

I completely agree. It’s a bit reactionary and it repeats itself, but it fundamentally questions the pervading narrative of how film, and therefore art, communicates.

I have a hard time taking photos of things because they change too quickly

https://linktr.ee/chronosensitivity

I feel like gen art people need to read just the first chapter of this book.

Gen art is interesting to me because it’s so objective, completely defined by abstract rules, and yet all the time I see artists presenting it in a completely subjective way: “this piece represents…” “this piece is about…”

This book is all about questioning this idea that art represents something other than itself, or rather questioning the impulse of the artist to make art something other than itself.