Lynne Margaret Brown
THE REPUBLIC X -A critique of judgement
NEW PRINT WORKS BY LYNNE MARGARET BROWN
Opening, Thursday September 25, 2014 and Closing Monday September 29th, 2014
This exhibition presents a series of works created in reaction to the writing of Plato, “The Republic, Book X” in which Plato condemns the artist and poet from society due to their creation of false imagery and emotion. Plato considered artists, their writing, drama, music, and poetry to be dangerous to the people and strength of the republic. Book X is then intertextualized with Immanual Kant’s writing on aesthetics; “The Critique of Judgement”, which constitutes a discussion of the place of Judgment itself, which must overlap both the “Understanding” (operating from within a deterministic framework) and “Reason” (operating on the grounds of freedom). The print based imagery presents a commentary and response to local, current global society, artists, art, architecture, the historical past, the present and future. The focus is upon object and form as well as content. Book X = Ten plates, ten prints, two series of masks, each a set of ten. These works represent my site based experience and observations as an artist and New Yorker City native living in Venice, Italy. Lynne Margaret Brown
“Time present and time past,
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past,
If all time is eternally present,
All time is unredeemable.”
T.S. Eliot
Lynne Margaret Brown, Visual Artist / Art Educator
- BFA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA
- MA Art and Art Education, Columbia University, New York, NY USA
- MA Studio Art, New York University, New York, NY USA
- PhD Candidate, IDSVA, Maine, USA
