Comments on: Ars longa, umbrae longiores http://adamnorwood.com/art/2008/02/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/ Art + Design + Code in Austin, Texas. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:31:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: austin http://adamnorwood.com/art/2008/02/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-14 austin Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:13:10 +0000 http://adamnorwood.com/2008/02/05/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-14 ah! the cut paper artist...I'd heard of her, but never looked into her work much. thanks! ah! the cut paper artist…I’d heard of her, but never looked into her work much. thanks!

]]> By: Adam http://adamnorwood.com/art/2008/02/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-13 Adam Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:34:06 +0000 http://adamnorwood.com/2008/02/05/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-13 Thanks for the link, Austin, that's a good connection. A passage in "Short History of the Shadow" talks about a profile's silhouette as semblance rather than resemblance, the idea that a person's shadow is more than just a visual shorthand for what that person looks like, that it actually contains some fundamental element of that person's nature. The parlor game of drawing friends' silhouettes was for a while practiced as a kind of psuedo-science, sort of like phrenology. I can see how these ideas would translate into making iconography, imbuing shadows of a thing with more important yet more universal meaning. That post also briefly mentions Kara Walker, one of my favorite contemporary artists. If you haven't seen her work, you really should <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Walker" rel="nofollow">check it out</a>. Thanks for the link, Austin, that’s a good connection. A passage in “Short History of the Shadow” talks about a profile’s silhouette as semblance rather than resemblance, the idea that a person’s shadow is more than just a visual shorthand for what that person looks like, that it actually contains some fundamental element of that person’s nature. The parlor game of drawing friends’ silhouettes was for a while practiced as a kind of psuedo-science, sort of like phrenology. I can see how these ideas would translate into making iconography, imbuing shadows of a thing with more important yet more universal meaning.

That post also briefly mentions Kara Walker, one of my favorite contemporary artists. If you haven’t seen her work, you really should check it out.

]]> By: austin http://adamnorwood.com/art/2008/02/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-12 austin Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:43:19 +0000 http://adamnorwood.com/2008/02/05/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-12 wow, horrible spelling and grammar in that comment...sorry. wow, horrible spelling and grammar in that comment…sorry.

]]> By: austin http://adamnorwood.com/art/2008/02/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-11 austin Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:42:51 +0000 http://adamnorwood.com/2008/02/05/ars-longa-umbrae-longiores/#comment-11 This is kind of crazy convergences of things we've both been thinking about lately: this woman manages to weave Stoichita's writing about shadows and Otto Neurath's isotypes into a post about quilt art. http://junomain.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/a-ramble-through-shadows-by-june-underwood/ To weird, huh? This is kind of crazy convergences of things we’ve both been thinking about lately: this woman manages to weave Stoichita’s writing about shadows and Otto Neurath’s isotypes into a post about quilt art.

http://junomain.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/a-ramble-through-shadows-by-june-underwood/

To weird, huh?

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