The Influence of TRP on Alan Moore

[j e l]

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--jel

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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-david-lloyd/page/64/mode/2up
>>
>> p.270
>>
>> https://archive.org/details/v-for-vendetta-by-alan-moore-david-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-ulrich-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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