Featured: Railing Opinion: A Call to Art Critics Real Voices: A Name in lieu of Authority, by Irving Sandler by Tyler Rowland

I write this as a nobody.

“The fear of becoming a “has been” keeps some people from becoming anything.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American social commentator

“Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, French general and emperor

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, Irish playwright and critic

I keep six honest serving-men / (They taught me all I knew); / Their names are What and Why and When /And How and Where and Who.

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, British author and poet

“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him.”
>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American author and naturalist

“He who has a WHY to live can bear with almost any HOW.”

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: “I am here to live out loud!””

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, French author

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American president

“There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, French playwright

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American musician

“If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women’s names.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, a woman

“Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, British cultural commentator

“If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and “nutty”. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket… even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American reverend

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American comedian and actor

“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become “one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions”: a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally we have — Greatness.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, British occultist and author

“I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, Spanish artist

“The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.”
>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American social commentary

“Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more “Malinowski” the more compelling the book. No “Malinowski,” and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American educator and critic

“An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keep out of it.” >>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, British author, artist, and critic

“Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion — it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you’d go nowhere.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, German fashion designer

“I believe art has social value and is a site for cultural critique. Thus, I chose to use myself and my objects, as a departure point to examine the ideological concerns that I hold dear, in the hope that it will incite action and thought, essentially ‘change’ in the world around me. ”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American artist

“There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.” >>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, American president

“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, British author, artist, and critic

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, German theologian

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, French artist

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, German/Swiss/American physicist

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, German/American actress

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tyler Rowland was born in Reno, Nevada next to Circus Circus Casino but ironically he never lived there. Instead, he grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and now he lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and one day he will die somewhere (?). But until then, he is mostly consumed by his banausic and moral responsibilities of being an artist (and teacher). Using himself and the objects and information that surround him, Tyler is interested in making art that has social value and that contributes to a larger cultural critique.

Currently, he is in the process of repainting Gustave Courbet’s The Stonebreakers (1850), which helped ignite the Realist movement and was one of the first depictions of the proletariat class. Unfortunately, this artwork perished in the fire bombings of Dresden in 1945 and since its cultural impact has dissipated. Tyler’s goal is to reintroduce Courbet’s work and philosophies back into the dialogue of current cultural production. He also is becoming a zebra on February 14, 2007 as the fifth installment of a thirteen-year live art project entitled, Artist’s Uniform.

“One day Diogenes shaved half his head bald, then went to a party where he was accosted and beaten up by young toughs. The next day, bruised and battered, he wrote their names on a slate, hung it around his neck, and spent the day walking around town with it.”

Kellie Ines Doge Reno is a name. She also is Anonymous: In the Future No One Will Be Famous that is currently at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany. This “progressive” conceptual exhibition presents the works of 11 international artists who – like the curator – will remain “unnamed”. “Whoever claims authorship is not the author.” Really?

Check out the press release at their website:

http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de/

“Well-known artistic strategies like Appropriation or Conceptual Art recede to the periphery of perception – and the metalanguage that has long since permeated and “managed” artistic works (or manipulated the reception thereof) undergoes a recession. Under the bright light of aesthetic perception, the names of the artists appear as distracting prosthetics, supplemental limbs that keep us from falling into a conceptual void. It is precisely this gap that anonymous works seek to fill. Removing the names produces a strange chaos, a game that is more than an obvious trick and also more than a deliberate deception. As viewers, we stand at the edge between knowing and not knowing the work, and at the same time we see the names that appear in our consciousness and their meaninglessness, and stand in the center of a mysterious or rather unknown language.”

“Seriously, who wrote this shit?”

>>>Kellie Ines Doge Reno, student