The Large Glass
The Large Glass has been called a love machine, but it is actually a machine of suffering. Its upper and lower realms are separated from each other forever by a horizon designated as the “bride’s clothes”. The bride is hanging, perhaps from a rope, in an isolated cage, or crucified.
L.H.O.O.Q.: Avant-garde Iconoclasm or Kitsch
“If we think of kitsch as a ‘style’ of bad taste, we arrive at another paradox, much deeper and more puzzling that the one just pointed out, namely the earlier mentioned possibility of consciously using bad taste (i.e., kitsch) in order to subvert the conventions of a ‘good taste’ that eventually leads to the sclerosis of academicism.
Transference: Exchanges in Pigment and Ink
“If anything, I try to confuse people and misdirect them,” he laughed. He prefers not to tell people what they should think or feel about a work. Bunkers thinks art should be a conversation. He likes to watch people viewing his work and interacting with it.
Achieving Optical Results Millimeter by Millimeter
“The movies especially amused me because of their optical side. Instead of making a machine which would turn, as I had done in New York, I said to myself, “Why not turn the film?” That would be a lot simpler. I wasn’t interested in making movies as such; it was simply a more practical way of achieving my optical results.