http://www.fustar.info/2007/12/20/manky-art-wednesday-the-spirit-of-duty-free/ Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005... Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:02:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.fustar.info/2007/12/20/manky-art-wednesday-the-spirit-of-duty-free/comment-page-1/#comment-1017515 The Image at the End of the Multiverse - Fustar – Recycling Cultural Waste Since 2005 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:44:48 +0000 http://www.fustar.info/2007/12/20/manky-art-wednesday-the-spirit-of-duty-free/#comment-1017515 [...] Part of the University of Limerick's "National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland", it was plonked (with little ceremony and less regard to the aesthetics of display) in a corridor and on an austere, breeze-blocked wall. In as much as you're ever aware of (or engaged with) the imagery you whizz by daily – my initial impressions were simply of a 70s, airbrushed thing. A crass and kitsch thing. A piece of "bad art". [...] [...] Part of the University of Limerick's "National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland", it was plonked (with little ceremony and less regard to the aesthetics of display) in a corridor and on an austere, breeze-blocked wall. In as much as you're ever aware of (or engaged with) the imagery you whizz by daily – my initial impressions were simply of a 70s, airbrushed thing. A crass and kitsch thing. A piece of "bad art". [...]

]]>