{"id":571,"date":"2004-04-17T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T17:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/04\/17\/holy-barbarians-beatman-its-semina\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T20:11:56","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:11:56","slug":"holy-barbarians-beatman-its-semina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2004\/04\/17\/holy-barbarians-beatman-its-semina\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Barbarians, Beatman, it&#8217;s Semina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a1258\"><\/a>  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beatmuseum.org\/berman\/wallaceberman.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatmuseum.org\/berman\/images\/berman9.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/insiteview.blogspot.com\/\">Tom Shugart<\/a>&#8216;s April 12 entry <a href=\"http:\/\/insiteview.blogspot.com\/2004_04_01_insiteview_archive.html#108180350189835474\">Howling Recollections<\/a>, I decided to revisit one of my favourite beats, <a href=\"http:\/\/artscenecal.com\/ArticlesFile\/Archive\/Articles1997\/Articles0497\/WBerman.html\">Wallace Berman<\/a>.  I love Berman&#8217;s work, how it flies below the radar, side-steps co-optation, attracts and repulses simultaneously, destabilising the viewer and the society it was made in while still using all the flotsam and jetsam &#8212; and the hardwired mythologies &#8212; of the society at hand.  It&#8217;s ephemera, but it&#8217;s semina, flowing outward, still fertilising minds everywhere.  It&#8217;s way cool.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"376\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatmuseum.org\/berman\/images\/berman5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blastitude.com\/13\/ETERNITY\/wallace_berman.htm\">this page<\/a>, a wonderful tribute to Wallace Berman by his son Tosh &#8212; read the whole thing, but here&#8217;s a quote I especially liked:<\/p>\n<p><em>My father was fanatical about perfection.  That perfection means his artwork.  Dad never took himself seriously; in fact he was really goofy. But when it comes to his art, he was extremely serious.  Wallace was particularly picky about who buys his work.  For instance a bank wanted to purchase a piece by my Dad for their corporate art collection, and he said sure.  What he did was made a piece called \u2018Bank Statement\u2019 with an image of a woman giving a man a blowjob superimposed over a bank statement.  For some odd reason, the bank refused to purchase the artwork.  Too bad, because I am sure it would have been a great conversation starter in that bank\u2019s next board meeting.<\/em>  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blastitude.com\/13\/ETERNITY\/wallace_berman.htm\">More&#8230;.<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Tom Shugart&#8216;s April 12 entry Howling Recollections, I decided to revisit one of my favourite beats, Wallace Berman. 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