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By: tom moody

tom moody — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:38:43 +0000

Giacometti animated GIF: “suggestive sliding of a cloven ball over a recumbent wedge”
On second thought I’d rather not see this.

By: marisa

marisa — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:14:13 +0000

so sweet!

By: charles

charles — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:46:45 +0000

juicy

By: joel

joel — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:12:20 +0000

Really good image JMB. It immediately reminded me of this Giacometti sculpture and some text that Rosalind Krauss wrote on it.

Alberto Giacometti, Suspended Ball, 1930-31, plaster and metal
“. . . or destabilization at large in works like suspended ball, where formlessness is to be found in a kind of categorical blurring. For in that object, the sexually suggestive sliding of a cloven ball over a recumbent wedge sets up the activity of a caress between organs whose gender identity is wholly unstable, seeming with each swing of the pendulum to change associations. . . “