25 Women by Dave Hickey

Author:Dave Hickey [Hickey, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226249148
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015-11-19T05:00:00+00:00

It is likewise appropriate, then, that Riley would use Deleuze’s term in likening the experience of Seurat’s La Grande Jatte to confronting a phantom in which “the unfathomable appears in the guise of total visibility.” In all of her discussions of artists she loves, in fact, Riley focuses on the realm of “sense,” insisting the art occurs when the way we see something and the way we know it impinge upon one another. She identifies “the vital tension between knowledge and sensation” as the wellspring of Seurat’s vision; she quotes Cézanne’s remark that color is “the place where our brain and the universe meet,” and observes that “Veronese lays bare the web which hangs between perception and cognition more openly than Titian because he doesn’t seem to be interested in expression.”

She repudiates Clement Greenberg’s materialist reduction of the painter’s medium to mere stuff, arguing instead that the means of painting are turned into a “medium” only by the response of the artist who, through those means, is trying to make something happen in the realm of sense. It is exactly at this level of abstraction that Riley thinks and works, and only at this level of abstraction that a tradition stretching from Titian to Nauman (both of whom Riley greatly admires) can even begin to exist.

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