Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 2:30 p.m.

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He was only 5-foot-3

Senior Reporter
Published Friday, January 30, 2009

The title of the Yale University Art Gallery’s “Picasso and the Allure of Language” has an off-putting 20th-century feel to it. It must be the way the word “language” is used (as a self-contained entity, rather than as a specification, like in “the language of politics”) that calls forth all those tiresome debates — ubiquitous for most of the 1900s — surrounding topics like phenomenology, structuralism, literary theory and, of course, deconstruction. While there is certainly something “alluring” about intellectual and artistic considerations of language, one is justified in possessing a...

#1 By Gert 6:40p.m. on September 10, 2009

I have to agree. Enough with the Picasso all ready YUAG. They find a way to over explain everything and make art even more boring....

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