2011 — The Monarch Review — Page 9
Kindle vs. the Book – James Brantingham
Friday, July 22, 2011 17:27 — 3 Comments
Connections When Dante addressed his readers, O tu che leggi…O you who read, he wrote to a very limited readership– only the wealthy had the time and leisure for an education. And at that, the language the literate did read was Latin. Dante wrote the Commedia in the Italian vernacular.   According to Erich Auerbach, it wasn’t until Dante’s time that ordinary language in medieval Europe had an alphabet. The door creaked open to modern literacy. As importantly, Dante established a relationship between the author and the reader by speaking directly to the reader—for the first time according to Professor Auerbach. […]
Symbolic Economy: Studying Qua Man As He Is – Francis Raven
Thursday, July 21, 2011 15:21 — 0 Comments
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The Peace Sign – James Brantingham
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 14:12 — 1 Comment
Richard started The Craft Guild in Manitou Springs in the early ‘70s– at the tail end of the hippie days. There were several varieties of craftspeople who worked at the store; many of them were very talented people. The shop sold hand-made leather goods, brass goods, bead-work, real hand-thrown pottery, outstanding custom made gold and silver jewelry, and even clothing. The street-side display window also showed off a 12†tall carved wood peace sign—the peace sign salute with the raised two fingers, not the circle with the jet inside. It was the only item in The Craft Guild that was […]
Interstitial Theatre – video by Sarah Bliss
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:03 — 0 Comments
On Thursday, August 4, 2011 from 8-11pm, Interstitial Theatre presents Hide Not Your Face by Sarah Bliss.  Hide Not Your Face is a three-channel video installation that explores the phenomenology of pain and the elastic nature of time. It challenges the viewers inclination to turn away from what is hard to see and know, making a call to bear witness. Interstitial Theatre 1701 First Ave S. (top floor) Seattle, WA
Eleanor Leonne Bennett
Monday, July 18, 2011 6:02 — 0 Comments
Important Mist, 2011 20″ x 15″ Eleanor Leonne Bennett’s work possesses an intuitive feel, beautifully capturing the world around her. She has an eye for composition and an understanding of color. In Important Mist her lens transforms the garden sprinkler, a summer scene of domesticity into a fantastical image of elegant drama. In both photographs, Important Mist and Get Back Better on, Bennett ameliorates her surroundings by moving beyond the snapshot aesthetic. Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a young UK photographer who has exhibited and published work around the world. Get Back Better on, 2011 13″ x 9″
Inventing an Illusive Space
Friday, July 15, 2011 21:40 — 0 Comments
Featuring painters Eric Elliott, Preston Graves, Grant Hottle, Michael Lorefice, and the lovely Kimberly Trowbridge, Inventing an Illusive Space is a five-person exhibition comprised solely of paintings working under the auspices of contemporary still lifes. At a time when many young artists are working with new technology and media, this exhibition engages the contemporary issues of space, the studio, and representation through the dexterity of the painted form. The work of all five artists is strongly thematic and conceptually linked with painting of the past, yet explores the nature of seeing in the fractured present through direct observation and the […]
Letter To Ed – David Scronce
Thursday, July 14, 2011 14:04 — 0 Comments
Super Bowl Sunday: Pittsburgh plays
A Fragile Dawn – Daniel Davis
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 14:08 — 0 Comments
The breaking sunlight speared through the pines, reflecting off the snow and startling my horse. I hadn’t been riding it very long—my last one was shot out from under me—and it tried to buck me, but I held tight and fought back. Wilcox watched with what may have been amusement. Perch, our employer, looked disgusted, even though he’d been the one to pick the horse for me in the first place. “Don’t mess up the tracks,” he said, spitting into the middle of the nearest footprint. As an after thought, he added, “Goddammit.” I got the horse calmed and didn’t […]
Nate Stottrup
Monday, July 11, 2011 19:33 — 1 Comment
Nate Stottrup’s prints and drawings utilize techniques of line, composition and contrast to develop movement and narrative. The three pieces featured here draw inspiration from landscape. Fuck Everything and Run more specifically explores and maps the inner experience of fear, while Flying Over the Monuments finds direct inspiration from Canyonlands National Park. Stottrup grew up on a farm and explains that once he was finished with his chores he would “sit down with the Hulk, or Spiderman or Wolverine and draw.†This childhood past time eventually led to his study of printmaking in college, cementing his passion for making. Stottrup […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
