{"id":532,"date":"2006-03-13T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2006-03-13T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T08:52:00","slug":"a-very-sad-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=532","title":{"rendered":"A very sad image."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/2005-8-16-p9-art-16-aug-699771-orig-copy-741713.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/2005-8-16-p9-art-16-aug-699771-orig-copy-730043.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the new Modern Painters, sitting the same size as Duchamp&#8217;s &#8220;Fountain&#8221; is an image of the space that was occupied by a statue of Buddha for 2000 years. The article is about Duchamp&#8217;s reputation as an anti-artist and an iconoclast &#8211; the article is defending a stance that this is false. The article is fine, however the image of where the buddha was &#8211; is amazingly powerful. It&#8217;s effectively a picture of a hole in a wall. It has a serious amount of emotional baggage, for a hole.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly this is a image that without knowledge of what I was seeing it would have made no difference &#8211; knowing what I was seeing carried the emotional punch that the unknown image would not have delivered.<\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t that punch what we are all looking for in images that really matter? <\/p>\n<p>Photo from Modern Painters &#8211; Photograph by Paula Bronstein\/GettyImages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new Modern Painters, sitting the same size as Duchamp&#8217;s &#8220;Fountain&#8221; is an image of the space that was occupied by a statue of Buddha for 2000 years. The article is about Duchamp&#8217;s reputation as an anti-artist and an iconoclast &#8211; the article is defending a stance that this is false. The article is fine, however the image of where the buddha was &#8211; is amazingly powerful. It&#8217;s effectively a picture of a hole in a wall. It has a serious amount of emotional baggage, for a hole. Clearly this is a image that without knowledge of what I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=532\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A very sad image.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}