Slog - Comments on Nostalgia Is Good http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good Yesterday, Ed Schad, the author of the really great blog I Call It Oranges (and also curator at the private Broad Foundation in LA), wrote a post in response to my Currently Hanging post about an Alec Soth photograph that reminded me of my parents' failed marriage. After I described my personal connection to the image in the post, I backtracked. Schad calls me on my insecurity, explains why I didn't need to backtrack, and talks about his own family and August Sander.... Copyright 2008 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:27:41 -0800 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:45:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bellevue Ave nostalgia is a conservative value

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115593 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115593 Visual Art Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:30:18 -0800 Comment by Oe, Poe: soe boering. What did you learn?

]]> Oe, Poe: soe boering. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115600 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115600 Visual Art Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:37:55 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves I guess Ed basically convinced me (this is something I'm coming to slowly, in various ways) that art critics don't have to be all art history and theory. That completely ignoring personal experience has a cost. I mean, I don't want to put my life story into everything I think and write about art--that would be silly. But I do think that critics in general try not to be personal at all, and maybe we don't need to do that quite so much.

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115614 Visual Art Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:51:10 -0800 Comment by Ed Schad It was not appropriate in the article, but I would add that many of our greatest engagements with history and art at least started with a nostalgic impulse (though maybe the initial impulse was ultimately abandoned). Camera Lucida began with Roland Barthes' attempt to find his mother in an old photograph. W.G. Sebald's books always start with a welling up of the heart and a tear in the eye but then get very critical and analytic. Toni Morrison began writing her book Jazz by finding an old trunk of clothing in an attic, overcome by a longing to understand the jazz age. These three are very serious writers that openly admit they are not only emotional but at times, downright sentimental. No one I know would call these writers conservative.

Thanks for reading, I appreciate it.

]]> Ed Schad http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115718 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/nostalgia_is_good#c1115718 Visual Art Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:32 -0800 Comment by Ed Schad It was not appropriate in the article, but I would add that many of our greatest engagements with history and art at least started with a nostalgic impulse (though maybe the initial impulse was ultimately abandoned). Camera Lucida began with Roland Barthes' attempt to find his mother in an old photograph. W.G. Sebald's books always start with a welling up of the heart and a tear in the eye but then get very critical and analytic. Toni Morrison began writing her book Jazz by finding an old trunk of clothing in an attic, overcome by a longing to understand the jazz age. These three are very serious writers that openly admit they are not only emotional but at times, downright sentimental. No one I know would call these writers conservative.

Thanks for reading, I appreciate it.

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