― nathalie, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― anthony, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Seriously, I think it's possible he saw it many ways:
* Publicity stunt * He saw Cicciolina as a fellow performance artist. She was an Italian MP, remember, standing on a 'sex for all' platform. * He saw her as simply 'trying to make people happy' in the same way he claimed to be, yet also, simultaneously, outraging bourgeois taste (as he also did). * He genuinely wanted to fuck her and give her babies, like little Ludwig, the baroque prince they created. * His 'Made In Heaven' photos blasphemously mix the bourgeois sacrament of marriage with pornography. Thereby, of course, restoring to marriage its real meaning: a license to hump and pump.
A man who reveals simple truths like this -- that piggish pleasure underpins, and yet threatens, civilisation as we know it -- is either a moralist or a late Freudian.
(By the way, I think his Cicciolina work is his weakest.)
― Momus, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Warhol: anyone else heard the theory that Andy suffered from Aspberger's Syndrome? Believable or utter bologna?
― suzy, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― mark s, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Diagnostic Criteria For 299.80 Asperger's Disorder A. Qualitative impairment in social interaction, as manifested by at least two of the following: marked impairments in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures to regulate social interaction failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people (e.g. by a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people) lack of social or emotional reciprocity B. Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as manifested by at least one of the following: encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity or focus apparently inflexible adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines or rituals stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms (e.g., hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements) persistent preoccupation with parts of objects C. The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning D. There is no clinically significant general delay in language (e.g., single words used by age 2 years, communicative phrases used by age 3 years) E. There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other than social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood F. Criteria are not met for another specific Pervasive Developmental Disorder or Schizophrenia
― Kerry, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― tha chzza, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Kerry - these traits are not habits, they're hardwired.
― Lucy Fisher, Saturday, 9 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nicholas J K, Tuesday, 7 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
There he goes, the man who didn't like Jeff Koonshttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/sep/25/cult-jeff-koons/
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 October 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
God I miss Mike Kelley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6TG9gIZRG4
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link