Tag Archives: truth


Walt Disney

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‘Four artists paint one tree’, a documentary by the Walt Disney Co.


Gregory Green

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Gregory Green, ‘Be Selective as to What You Accept as Truth’ (1987)

Poster edition.


Tina & David Meltzer

Lamentation for Hank Williams

If I can’t finish writing a song in ten minutes then it ain’t worth the finishing,
   said Hank to a reporter.
A camera was busy taking pictures for LIFE magazine.

–I’ll never get out of this world alive,
wrote Hank in a song
sung for millions at The Grand Ole Opry
published by Acuff-Rose Sales Inc.
recorded by MGM records

flat-picking his D-28
backed up by The Drifting Cowboys
night after night & during the days
playing at picnics, rallies
supermarket gala openings

–There’s no dreams but bad ones,
Hank told his wife Audrey
who told her lover who told the doctor
who could not heal him

places no longer places
velocity of faces
& he burned down, died at 29 of an overdose
kindly rocked to sleep in the back seat of his Cadillac
being driven to a concert
New Year’s Day 1953

by Tina & David Meltzer (listen here)


Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman, ‘Partial Truth’ (1997)


Marcel Buehler

Marcel Bühler, ‘The One Trick Pony’ (2011)

(‘I WILL NEVER AGAIN SAY WHAT I BELIEVE AND NEVER AGAIN BELIEVE WHAT I SAY AND IF A TRUE WORD ONCE DOES ESCAPE ME I WILL IMMEDIATELY HIDE IT BEHIND SO MANY LIES THAT IT IS NOT TO BE FOUND BACK AGAIN’)


Phil Milstein

‘March of the memories’ by Phil Milstein (?)


Peter Coffin

Peter Coffin, ‘The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest form of Art’


Joost Halbertsma

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‘Life’ (2005) and

humans

‘Humans’ (2009) by Joost Halbertsma


Gareth Long

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Gareth Long, ‘Work in progress’

Made as part of a suite of works foregrounding the mechanisms of artistic production. A looped depiction of the cartoon character Daffy Duck, seemingly locked in the throes of ‘writer’s block’, it points with humour to the sincerity and anguish of the creative process.


Barbara Visser

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‘Mystic Truth (calling Bruce)’ (2007) by Barbara Visser.

Framed page from the 1991 telephone book of New Mexico, featuring the telephone number of artist Bruce Nauman.