The Influence of TRP on Alan Moore

[Mark Thibodeau]

Shades of the further reaches into critical theorist Julia Kristeva’s
conception of the carnivalesque, wherein the one and only TRUE locus of the
art experience is in the theoretical space between the (artwork/observer,
artist/observer, artist/materials, observer’s life experience/artist’s
intentionality, observer’s knowledge of artist’s body of work, etc, etc)
being of vital importance and rendering the idea of any kind of
universality of the art experience utterly meaningless.

Cheers!
Yer Old Pal Jerky



On Sunday, May 11, 2025, j e l <ssnomes at gmail.com> wrote:

> V For Vendetta
> by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
>
> p.64
> https://archive.org/details/v-for-vendetta-by-alan-moore-dav
> id-lloyd/page/64/mode/2up
>
> p.270
> https://archive.org/details/v-for-vendetta-by-alan-moore-dav
> id-lloyd/page/269/mode/2up
>
>
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM j e l <ssnomes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/alan-moore-hans-ulric
> h-obrist-2013/
> >
> > HUO: How would you describe the influence of Thomas Pynchon on your work?
> >
> > AM: I found Thomas Pynchon through Richard Fariña. If I’ve got this
> right,
> > Pynchon was a close friend or disciple of Fariña’s. I checked out V,
> which
> > I found really engrossing and extraordinary. I liked how he was telling a
> > kind of metaphysical mystery story, and the richness of his thinking and
> > his language. How he wasn’t afraid to compress quite unusual or fragile
> > ideas into these marvellously dense pages, and relying upon the reader to
> > do a large amount of the work in decoding them. I started to formulate my
> > idea that any successful work of art, inevitably, only happens in some
> kind
> > of conceptual space between the artist and the audience. The more work
> the
> > audience has to do, the more they will enjoy the piece of art in
> question.
> > With a lot of modern movies, the viewer is not asked to be part of the
> > process. Increasingly, they’re encouraged not to bother about plot or
> > structure as long as there is a constant stream of sensation, explosions,
> > special effects. For me, this is not what art is about.
> >
> > --jel
> >
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