SIU Photography: Louis Kaplan, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Biographical Writings,
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A number of paradoxes tie up this scene of resignation. An identifiable subject speaks of his loss, of becoming anonymous. In an autobiographical narrative, Abstract of an Artist, the writes of his artistic techniques for losing himself, for losing his signature, the loss of assignment to a signature. In this manner, the text written as Abstract of an Artist documents the abstracting of an artist. In place of the identity of the maker, one will read an impersonal product label--numbers and letters of a computer bar-coded system stamped onto the back of a canvas in order to provide the "necessary data" in the age of mechanical production and reproduction. But at the point of this abstracting gesture, one reads about an "I" who returns to assign each of the acts of resignation to himself. What of the "I" who refrains from the personal touch, who will have given up signing "my paintings," who will have put numbers and letters on the back of the canvas or on the front of the graph paper, who will have treated himself and his productions like impersonal models--cars, airplanes, guns or even telephones? Who, if and when, anonymous?
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تاریخ انتشار 2006