{"id":16920,"date":"2014-05-19T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-ad-reinhardt-how-to-look-art\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T19:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T02:16:51","slug":"austinkleon-ad-reinhardt-how-to-look-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-ad-reinhardt-how-to-look-art\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16920 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-ad-reinhardt-how-to-look-art\/attachment\/16921\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n5u0ihcwz31qz6f4bo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-ad-reinhardt-how-to-look-art\/attachment\/16922\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n5u0ihcwz31qz6f4bo3_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-ad-reinhardt-how-to-look-art\/attachment\/16923\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n5u0ihcwz31qz6f4bo4_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-ad-reinhardt-how-to-look-art\/attachment\/16924\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n5u0ihcwz31qz6f4bo2_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/86224474401\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/3775737685\/wwwaustinkleo-20\/ref=nosim\/\"><strong>Ad Reinhardt, <em>How to Look: Art Comics<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wrote in 2011: \u201cIt frustrates me to no end that there isn\u2019t an easily available collection of Reinhardt\u2019s cartoons. They\u2019re so brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And lo\u2019 and behold! Now there\u2019s a collection. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/21\/arts\/art-architecture-ad-reinhardt-newspaper-cartoonist-the-abstract-double-agent.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm\">More about \u2018em<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026long before Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg took shots at the high-mindedness of the postwar American avant-garde, Ad Reinhardt (1913-67) was blasting away from a privileged vantage in the middle of the fray. A wise-cracking contrarian whose penchant for dialectics would not allow him to hold any position he could not later undermine, he was a consummate art-world insider and a fierce defender of abstract painting. At the same time, his ingrained populism made him suspicious of the rhetoric and institutional power brokering that supports any art elite.<\/p>\n<p>His visual and verbal assaults took their most lasting form in a series of cartoons and satires, done mainly for the liberal New York newspaper PM in the late 1940\u2019s and for ArtNews in the early 1950\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The critic Thomas Hess wrote in a booklet for the 1975 edition that Reinhardt\u2019s lampoons are \u201dlike precious containers of the air of New York, 1946-61.\u201d They are also like core samples from the artist\u2019s brain, revealing a side of his personality not apparent in his canvases. Using cutouts from 19th-century illustrated books and periodicals, as well as line drawings and hand-drawn dialogue balloons, he concocted a style in which the surrealism of J. J. Grandville and Max Ernst was inflected with a tough Queens accent.<\/p>\n<p>One of his recurring panels shows a stick figure pointing at a canvas of crisscrossed lines and asking, \u201dWhat does this represent?\u201d The indignant painting, having grown eyes, a mouth, arms and legs, punches him in the jaw and answers with an even more aggressively New York question, \u201dWhat do you represent?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 16-panel \u201dHow to Look at Art-Talk,\u201d from 1946, he continues the question-answer format. \u201dIsn\u2019t abstract art \u2018just a design,\u2019 just \u2018composition,\u2019 just an empty bucket into which one can drop some subject matter?\u201d asks a young woman wearing a blindfold. To which her companion answers bluntly, \u201dNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/3775737685\/wwwaustinkleo-20\/ref=nosim\/\">Really beautifully produced book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>austinkleon: Ad Reinhardt, How to Look: Art Comics I wrote in 2011: \u201cIt frustrates me to no end that there isn\u2019t an easily available collection of Reinhardt\u2019s cartoons. They\u2019re so brilliant.\u201d And lo\u2019 and behold! Now there\u2019s a collection. More about \u2018em: \u2026long before Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg took shots at the high-mindedness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4oU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16925,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions\/16925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}