Monument or Model?

by YF on March 30, 2009 at 3:47 pm in Uncategorized · 6 comments

: Well, it is kind of hard to make the towers actually look good. All due respect, but they were pretty ugly buildings, representative of the industrial, early 70s look. And I could be completely wrong about that. I don’t know one thing about architecture.

AndrewYF March 30, 2009 at 4:46 pm
: “There’s a reason why memorials, from the simple tombstone to the largest public monuments, invariably rely on some form of abstraction (not necessarily of the modernist variety).”
I’ve never thought of this, but this is true. There is something about this literal representation that doesn’t allow for reflection.

Nick-YF March 30, 2009 at 4:54 pm
: I’ll burn in hell for this, but I can’t be the only person thinking of Spinal Tap when looking at this piece.

attackgerbil March 30, 2009 at 8:57 pm
: …in danger of being crushed, by a dwarf.

SF March 30, 2009 at 9:21 pm
: I don’t know about this.

Bronx Baseball Daily March 30, 2009 at 9:46 pm
: Should have gone with Boym. That would have gone over well.
http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/130129

SF March 30, 2009 at 10:05 pm