Wait, it was Brakhage's scholarship that he impugned, not Frampton's. The
translation was Frampton's but I forget the point it was supposed to serve in
the paper.
On Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:07 PM, David Tetzlaff <djte...@gmail.com> wrote:
Sad, but predictable and perhaps even typical.
I hope you spoke up at the session, Bernie, and went Medieval on the speaker's
Ass-umptions..
> "Anachronic Grosseteste: Frampton, Irwin, and the Medium of Moving Light," by
> Luke A. Fidler, affiliated with Northwestern University, was a paper on
> Hollis Frampton presented at a College Art Association session yesterday.
> The writer apparently has a degree in Medieval scholarship, and in the course
> of his paper offered a critique, if we can call it that, of the artist's use
> of Medieval sources. We were even shown via PowerPoint Frampton's
> translation of some Latin text. It was strange to hear about Frampton in
> this context, where nothing ever moves on screen, but it was important to the
> speaker that Frampton be identified as a kind of giant. The reputation of
> the artist served the interests of the speaker, and the paper really sucked.
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