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

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.

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…”

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🙏 tyty. It’s funny: When I was thinking about it, I realized that even though I think about art a lot, most of what I actually read is just psychology and psychoanalysis.

Thanks for sharing, today we have a few film and cinema-related contributions, the thematic spectrum of /the-library is expanding, which is great 🙏

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