July 28, 2009
How Artists Must Dress
I am always hesitant to post prescriptive rules of dress, but these are amusing* at least:
Communicating an attitude of complete indifference to one’s personal appearance is only achievable through a process of self-reflexive critique bordering on the obsessive. Artists who are in reality oblivious to how they dress never achieve this effect.
Or:
An artist compensates for a limited wardrobe budget by making creative and entertaining clothing choices, much in the way that a dog compensates for a lack of speech through vigorous barking.
*Clearly, they are intended to be amusing, the question is whether one ought to read it with the same posture as Derrida’s re-mark that he “takes irony very seriously.”
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