Where did I propose banning the photos of Robert Mapplethorpe? My guess is if those idiots didn't make the fuss over his crap being sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts he'd be well on his way to being entirely forgotten, now.
That asshole didn't even develop and print his own pictures. His work is derivative crap. If he hadn't stuck a whip up his ass or taken a picture of one gay man pissing in the mouth of another (straight kulcha-vultures are thrilled by internalized self-hatred among minority members) and his racist images of black people he'd have been remembered as the toy-boy of a trust-fund vampire on the fringes of the arts.
I wish I could find the article I read where Fran Lebowitz who he had plied with prints talked about how she took moving into a much smaller apartment as the excuse she wanted to throw them in the garbage - before the tulip-mania that is the art market inflated them into the same kind of thing Bit-Coin is now - I can't remember if it was she who talked about how tediously superficial his work was.
No, I'm in favor of him going out of style and never coming back in and being an exhibit in nothing more interesting than an example of how stupid and decadent commercial art became in the post-war period. I think whoever in the NEA who decided to fund the showing of his pictures probably did more to hurt artists and their ability to make a basic living than the Republican assholes who jumped on the bandwagon that idiot provided to them. I don't think that's responsible or in any way positive. By that time his pictures were selling for a lot of money, the bull-shit art market should have to fund its own publicity stunts, not using public funds that real artists need.
" My guess is if those idiots didn't make the fuss over his crap being sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts he'd be well on his way to being entirely forgotten, now. "
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Especially now that a high-profile movie about him is coming out to no publicity whatsoever
In what we were going over about Mapplethrope's beard, Patti Smith, I was wondering where I read someone saying that people who bought her as a great artist would eat deep fried turds if you told them they were chic. You know, the ones who drank civit shit coffee when they were told it was considered a great treat when it was actually what the poorest of the poor drank because they couldn't afford coffee. NYC hipsters are the biggest chumps on the continent.
Delete"high-profile movie" in other words, just more of the PR campaign which was all there was to him. If he hadn't hooked up with Wagstaff (a curator with the ethics of a Donald Trump) he'd be considered a wannabee by the very few people who ever heard of him. I doubt Patti would have been lauded if she hadn't been the beneficiary of a similar BS PR campaign.
Patti Smith was Mapplethorpe's beard?
ReplyDeleteNot only have you pbviously not read Patti's JUST KIDS, which is about their relationship and one of the most wonderful memoirs of our age, but you're clearly a truly sick insensitive shithead.
[Looks over at unread books shelf] Maybe I'll get to it after I read "Wunnerful. Wunnerful" the autobiography of Lawrence Welk. It'll be a long wait, that particular shelf hasn't seen action since the 1960s.
DeleteWhen are you going to read it? Patti Smith's book, that is.
Ooh, Simps. Someone directed me to your whine that I made your blood boil by calling Patti Smith Mapplethrope's beard. Better watch that, at your age you're likely to pop a gasket or something. For crying out loud, Simps. I'm merely violating the bull shit bounds of conventional NYC hipster piety. She's not God, you know. She's not even good.
DeletePatti was Mapplethrople's beard?
ReplyDeleteGo fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw, you depraved ignorant bigoted piece of offal.
Lucky for him you weren't around to suggest topics to Mapplethorpe, he might have gone for that if he thought it would get him the attention he craved.
DeleteYou have now officially lost any reason for anybody to consider you anything other than a bigoted ignoramus. Congrats.
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to the openly racist openly anti-semitic flagrantly queer-(self)hating Mapplethorpe who you're championing?
DeleteGo look at his picture of a gay man pissing into the mouth of another gay man and tell me why I'm not supposed to hate the fucking asshole who promoted that view of gay men for the titillation of largely straight, rich degenerates and hangers-on like you. And that's not to mention the myriad of other gay-hating images he produced, not to mention the racist ones.
And the fucking asshole didn't even develop and print his own pictures. His flowers are stuff that was already a cliche by 1940, as I pointed out yesterday. Derivative and copied crap.
"Ooh, Simps. Someone directed me to your whine...."
ReplyDeleteUh, now, you hilariously obvious liar. Nobody directed you there -- you lurk there. Good god, you're the most transparent asswipe on the planet.
Uh, Stupy, I don't have to lurk at Duncan's den of the dyspeptic decrepit, there's a far easier way to check what you say about me. There's one of the rump of regulars at E-ton who apparently finds my retorts to your retro-raging rants funny.
DeleteYou're a world class liar. And everybody knows it.
DeleteEarth to Sparky: You don't have a mole at Eschaton. It's preposterous on the face of it.
But keep denying it, and keep making yourself look like even a bigger jerkoff than everybody already knows you are.
"world class liar"? Over saying someone directed me to your comment about me at Duncan's idea of an Athenæum*? That's your idea of "world class"? No wonder you think Patti Smith's dollar-store dystopian pop songs are "world class".
DeleteYou'll never know, Simps, if it's one of the Eschatots who doesn't like you. Maybe it's someone who likes seeing you get his ass kicked regularly, maybe it's someone who hopes your blood will boil over for the last time. I'd say it was rock-critic roid-rage but someone might thing I meant you were steroidal. Though, it being you, at your age hemorrhoidal would be credible. Go treat yourself to some Preparation-H, put on your Poldark breeches and think of better times. You might ask for some hot Ovaltine. Put a dash of schnapps in it, you'll calm right down.
* I don't actually think Duncan's that stupid but some of his regulars are. Stupy will have to look up the word and he's too lazy too so he'll never understand what it means.
Wow. That was some world class stupid.
ReplyDeleteNext time, write something even longer and more turgid.
:-)
172 words is long. Maybe for the fourth month of grade 1. If you're in the third level reading group.
DeleteIt was the word with the digraph in it, wasn't it. That's as far as you managed to get, isn't it.
You know absolutely nothing -- hell, LESS than nothing -- about writing.
ReplyDeleteI'm tempted to say this from The King of clichés but that would be to overestimate your abilities, you're more like a knight. A benighted knight. No, too high still, you may aspire to be a squire.
Delete"I'm tempted to say this from The King of clichés but that would be to overestimate your abilities, you're more like a knight. A benighted knight. No, too high still, you may aspire to be a squire."
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you thought that was clever and literate. :-)
What? That trifle? I just tossed that off the top of my head. It's what I do, it's sort of like what you do. Only you pull what you do out from lower in your anatomy.
DeleteDude -- you called Patti Smith Robert Mappledthorpe's beard.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any idea how ignorant and fucking bigoted that is?
No, of course you don't -- why am I even asking that question?
Seriously -- you need to shut down your fucking blog and go send yourself into exile somewhere. You have no moral or esthetic compass whatsoever.
Good fucking grief, you're a monster.
I can see it now, Simps finally writes the movie treatment that will sort of get his names in lights finally, he writes the tragic story of this horrible wrong, this evil and fiendish crime against inanity, his working title The Sorrow And The Pity.
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