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Works of art - from any discipline - where the concept has made you go 'wow' and the execution has made you go 'eh'.

Prompted by the Matmos thread on ILM - their 'A Chance To Cut...' is a great idea which just sounded flat to me as a realised artwork.

Also I loved the idea of Perec's Life: A User's Manual and never got more than 40 pages in, but I was younger and perhaps more foolish then.

And one reason I was pleased when Creed won the Turner Prize was that his installation was exactly as good as I thought it was going to be.

― Tom, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course thousands of ILX threads qualify for this too har.

― Tom, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

creeds work is perfect in the marriage of concept and execution. Im way liberal though. recently I have been into John Currin and Glenn Brown- I was won over by the craftiness of the latters style. So lush in the flesh,and funny too. I heard him give a tlk and unravel some of the more obscure references- like a title being a joy division song title and stuff. Ooh hang on do you mean 'eh' as in the fonz,(ie good) or as in 'this is pants'?(ie bad)

― huh, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Plunderphonics.

― Andrew L, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

High Concept = You need a manual to be part of the in-crowd. Do you mean it has to hit you emotionally? But how much is that decided by the information given to you? (I am rambling more than evah!)

Jeff Koons. I now realize I just don't like the execution. The idea behind it is grate though.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Works of art - from any discipline - where the concept has made you go 'wow' and the execution has made you go 'eh'"...yes, that is clearly applicable to every comment I've ever made.

― jel --, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rodgers Lloyd building, Duchamps Rose Selvay

― anthony, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, try the Perec again! Jigsaw puzzles become a lot more fun once you're far enough in to start seeing parts of the picture itself. Plus somewhere around page 80 your brain structure actually changes and you go from seeing long lists of furniture as "skim this bit" to "ooh, this is the good bit."

― nabisco%%, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jigsaw puzzles become a lot more fun once you're far enough in to start seeing parts of the picture itself.

Like Star Wars! Which is the most high concept of the lot, some would argue. Not me, though. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Queneau's Exercises In Style has a great concept (the same simple two-paragraph story retold 99? times each in a different style) but becomes a bit of a slog after a while (heh heh one of the styles is called "Double Entry")

― jamesmichaelward, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Works of art - from any discipline - where the concept has made you go 'wow' and the execution has made you go 'eh'.

In film, The Blair Witch Project and the Ethan Hawke version of Hamlet.

― j.lu, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the idea of the Ethan Hawke version of The Blair Witch Project

"I'm scared...and alone...I'm burning my novels and writings for warmth! Damn you, world, for oppressing me, a true artist, this way!" *calls Uma on cellphone for support*

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In art: Damien Hirst's ongoing celebrity. On paper, he was bringing fresh ideas into the galleries by using animal carcass and smearing crap on canvas. If that was showing the inner workings of the soul, I missed the point entirely.

He rode further on directing Blur's vids, than his own art. Even they sputtered out....

― Nichole Graham, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Exercises in Style' is great fun to dip into rather than read straight through in one sitting. It cld be called 'Literature: A User's Manual'.

― Andrew L, Saturday, 25 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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