This summary provides an overview of the "Aftertaste" exhibition at the Wall Gallery in Berlin, which explores themes of sensuality, consumption and transformation through the works of four artists. Matthew Rose adds surreal twists to 1950s advertisements. Sunna Wathen and Lisa Salamandra extend the meaning of bread beyond consumption through installations of bread remnants. Nancy Jones' cartoon-like images depict women in vulnerable poses but render the images ambiguous, leaving the viewer with an unclear payoff and bitter aftertaste.
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With the first centerfold image of the radiant Marilyn Monroe, Hugh M. Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy's Playmate of the Month. This voluptuous new edition celebrates every nude centerfold from every issue of Playboy, from 1953 to February 2016. Initially published a decade ago, and now comprehensively updated, this must-have edition boasts 734 nude centerfolds and decade openers from literary luminaries, including an all-new essay by Elizabeth Wurtzel on the last decade of centerfolds, and a redesigned package that perfectly captures the complete cultural and aesthetic arc of the Playboy centerfold.With contributions by:- Robert Coover- Paul Theroux- Robert Stone- Jay McInerney- Daphne Merkin- Maureen Gibbon- Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Buffy Summers
Professor Baker
English 1302
15 December 2015
Preaching to Their Respective Choirs: Political and Religious Divides in YA Literature
In a 1989 special issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, editors Craig Werner and Frank P. Riga identify a shift regarding how authors of novels for young readers address religious matters. Several narratives are indeed full-blown declarations of their beliefs, but they have also been politicized in more obvious ways. The formula associated with these narratives is relatively simple: a rebellious protagonist who is “smart, sensitive, and perceptive” defies the “flagpole Christian majority,” which results in the protagonist being harassed and bullied. Darwin’s theories of evolution are frequently at the center of the conflict, possibly a reflection of the dramatization of the Scopes monkey trial, Inherit the Wind. Eventually, the protagonist’s actions are proven justified; the Christian majority is clearly wrongheaded and narrow-minded, particularly when it comes to evolution’s place in the school curriculum.
The contemporary political and ideological landscape and distance between conservative (including the “religious right”) and liberal thought make the sensibilities and models of which Cadden speaks nearly impossible to define or reconcile. Further, the once “partial answers” offered in the narratives to which Werner and Riga refer have been replaced by certainty. The protagonists offer “full blown declarations of faith” or non-faith, but the declarations are clearly a result of the political environment and meant for a specific audience thus leaving the protagonists preaching to their respective choirs, an unproductive and uncritical endeavor.
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Buffy Summers
Professor Baker
ENG 1302
12 June 2015
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The Wall Gallery | Berlin, GermanyAFTERTASTE
A
ftertaste,” at Berlin’s newly opened Wall Gallery
(through January 24), can be interpreted in
at least two ways. The term can refer to what
remains after the tongue’s taste receptors have
been activated, or, in Pierre Bourdieu’s more political meta-
phor, to those morsels of aesthetic appreciation tied to class or
regimes of domination, but now surviving only as inert, ironic
remnants. Both these meanings float interchangeably on the
surface of this exhibition, in which four artists—Matthew Rose
(U.S./Paris), Sunna Wathen (U.K./Iceland), Lisa Salamandra
(U.S./France) and Nancy Jones (U.S./Berlin)—are charged with
exploring “sensuality, consumption, and transformation.”
Rose adds a surreal twist to 1950s pop advertisements, show-
ing, among other things, a housewife or tire salesman with
their heads replaced with carrots and a bottle cap, respectively.
Looking remarkably like a Neutral Milk Hotel cover design,
Rose’s images redirect our sometimes frustrated expectations of
a promised appearance to the announcements themselves, defer-
ring desire to a “second coming” that never actually arrives.
Wathen and Salamandra both extend the meaning of bread far
beyond ordinary consumption. In Breadcornermountain (2008),
Wathen piles the remains of countless loaves into a corner, turn-
ing them into a useless Jacob’s ladder. Salamandra’s Daily Bread
series (2001-ongoing) dispenses with the food item altogether,
turning her old bread wrappings into watercolor and ink mon-
tages which in no way attempt to hide their mundane origins. By
refusing to dispense with the use value of this staple commodity,
these two artists foreground the shadow of exchange value that
lingers long after bread has been drained of substance.
Similarly, Jones’s cartoon-like, mainly black-and-white render-
ings draw close to the treatment of women as commodities, yet
absolve themselves of further comment at the same time. Bluebird
(all work 2004) shows a woman sitting on a man’s face, hiking
up her dress to make things go more swimmingly. Her face is
completely hidden by her hair, while the only dash of color is a
bluebird looking down on the couple from a nearby branch. Two
girls receive the same favor in Girls, with red dots covering their
breasts, while in Phone Girl a solitary siren crosses her legs around
a phone cord. In Bubbles, another Bambi bimbo seems duly excited
by her explosive bottle of bubbly. These images are doubtless ads,
but exactly what for remains unclear. As Jones points out, “While
women may consistently be depicted or viewed in vulnerable
poses, the pursuit of a flat, cartoon-like, or simplified image can
end up rendering the abstraction harmless.” Indubitably, the payoff
never comes without a bitter aftertaste. ~Brian Willems
(clockwise from top left) Matthew Rose, Les Bottles, 2008, installation view. Sunna Wathen, Breadcornermountain, 2008, installation detail. Nancy Jones, Girls, 2004, enamel on wood panel,
91 x 91 cm. Courtesy The Wall Gallery, Berlin. (opposite) Ori Gersht, Pomegranate, 2006, digital video, monitors, 3:52 mins. Courtesy the artist.
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