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"My Most Leadingest-Questionsest Q&A Ever: John Currin on Sexism & Second Thoughts"

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Anonymous Charles Vincent said...

Wow he thought beauty and happiness were interchangeable? No wonder he is revising some of his thinking. I can think of so many examples here. I will go with Crows from Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, where Scorsese is Van Gogh. This is possibly one of the most beautiful sequences ever filmed, but also it is fantastically melancholy in the extreme, in spite of it being bathed in art and sunshine. Beauty can be a dagger. I have often wondered what Currin was up to and it seems maybe he does do. An interesting struggle.

July 21, 2011 at 11:07 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Charles,

Thanks for your comment. Yes, I wouldn't have suspected Currin was thinking along the lines of beauty and happiness.

So I'm glad I did ask a more open ended question rather than just leading ones!

I haven't pondered the beauty/happiness connection much myself, except maybe from a feminist perpective (eg. The pain many women and also I'll admit many men put themselves through to be "beautiful" -- waxing, liposuction, plastic sugery, etc.)

July 21, 2011 at 1:23 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi again Charles,

Just wanted to clarify that last comment was from me, Leah Sandals.

It's showing up on my phone as "anonymous" for some reason.

July 21, 2011 at 1:24 PM

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