{"id":6837,"date":"2006-11-29T06:53:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T06:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/29\/rauschenberg-phobia-and-crimestoppers\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T06:53:48","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T06:53:48","slug":"rauschenberg-phobia-and-crimestoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2006\/11\/29\/rauschenberg-phobia-and-crimestoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rauschenberg, phobia, and Crimestoppers."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Adrian Searle pays tribute to Rauschenberg in the Guardian:During the 1950s, Robert Rauschenberg produced some of the best and most influential art of the decade. Visiting Rome in 1952 with Cy Twombly, he hung small, totemic sculptures called Personal Fetishes from the trees in the Pincio Gardens. Subsequently, he threw all the work he had made and shown in Italy into the Arno River. &#8220;It saved a packing problem,&#8221; he said. <a href=\"http:\/\/arts.guardian.co.uk\/features\/story\/0,,1958599,00.html\">http:\/\/arts.guardian.co.uk\/features\/story\/0,,1958599,00.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The argument\u00a0between or about\u00a0bloggers vs reviewers is still going on interminably over there. I hope someone is close on patenting a decent arthritis pill that doesn&#8217;t burn a hole in the tummy, for\u00a0the degenerating cartilage in the arms of those typing epistles\u00a0arguing over whether we should be paid very badly to think about books or not be paid at all. Perhaps these folk need to get some phobias &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jenny Diski admirably managed to overcome her arachnophobia<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v28\/n23\/disk01_.html\">(http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v28\/n23\/disk01_.html<\/a>\u00a0) in what must\u00a0surely\u00a0be akin to the level of surprise or revelation\u00a0Bernadette experienced\u00a0when the Virgin Mary turned up in the rosebush beside her (or however that story goes). It offers hope for my rodent and fear of dying anxieties. A hamster moving in\u00a0helped.\u00a0 The hamster, a dwarf,\u00a0has gained weight and is more fluffy golf ball than rodent now.\u00a0I considered a job as an autopsy attendant,\u00a0tried looking at autopsy websites, an&#8217; came very close to passing out.\u00a0 I think phobias reside in the frontal lobe, sharing the couch with writer&#8217;s block and other such joys.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Some\u00a0medja are suggesting atonement for Ian McEwan.\u00a0Forget that, his real calling\u00a0could lie\u00a0in\u00a0forming a partnership with\u00a0Crimestoppers. Since his last novel suggested he may be persuaded of the power of poetry to change the mind of tempestuous criminals. Am surprised the Met police haven&#8217;t recorded him reading poetry and then\u00a0set up some kind of tape deck to blare it on a loop\u00a0near notorious London crime spots.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Searle pays tribute to Rauschenberg in the Guardian:During the 1950s, Robert Rauschenberg produced some of the best and most influential art of the decade. Visiting Rome in 1952 with Cy Twombly, he hung small, totemic sculptures called Personal Fetishes from the trees in the Pincio Gardens. Subsequently, he threw all the work he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-spiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}