[Baton Rouge, LA, 1991]
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A-Jump Books
American
[Baton Rouge, LA, 1991]
Postcards
1991
Offset photolithograph, printed 2006
of 500
Image: 10.2 x 12.6 cm
Overall: 10.8 x 15.2 cm
Gift of Sean Corcoran, 2007
2007.0106.0021
Inscriptions verso (printed): Ron Jude / Baton Rouge, LA, 1991 / 21 / © 2006 Ron Jude www.ronjude.com
[postmarked APR 16, 2007, McCALL, ID 83638]
(black ink): ON THE QUESTION OF INFLUENCE: IT'S HARD / TO PIN-DOWN, HAVING COME UP IN THE VISUAL / ARTS DURING THE SEGUE BETWEEN / MODERNISM AND POST-MOERNISM. (THANKFULLY, / WE'RE PAST THAT INTOLERABLE ARGUMENT.) / RICHARD PRINCE FINDS HIS WAY INTO MY / [illeg.] AS OFTEN AS WILLIAM EGGLESTON, / YET NEITHER DOMINATES. AS RAYMOND / CARVER POINTED OUT IN HIS ESSAY ON / INFLUENCE, "FIRES," REAL INFLUENCE COMES / FROM TEH CIRCUMSTANCES OF ONE'S / LIFE; "THE MOON AND THE TIDE," AS HE / CALLS IT. IN THAT RESPECT, I SUPPOSE / MY BLUE-COLLAR UPBRINGING AND LIFE-LONG / BATTLE WITH CHRONIC BRONCHITIS (FROM / WHICH I AM PRESENTLY SUFFERING) HAVE / SHAPED MY WORK AS MUCH AS ANYTHING / I'VE EVER SEEN IN A MUSEUM OR / BOOK.
[addressed to] SEAN CORCORAN / GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE / 900 EAST AVE. / ROCHESTER, NY 14607
[postmarked APR 16, 2007, McCALL, ID 83638]
(black ink): ON THE QUESTION OF INFLUENCE: IT'S HARD / TO PIN-DOWN, HAVING COME UP IN THE VISUAL / ARTS DURING THE SEGUE BETWEEN / MODERNISM AND POST-MOERNISM. (THANKFULLY, / WE'RE PAST THAT INTOLERABLE ARGUMENT.) / RICHARD PRINCE FINDS HIS WAY INTO MY / [illeg.] AS OFTEN AS WILLIAM EGGLESTON, / YET NEITHER DOMINATES. AS RAYMOND / CARVER POINTED OUT IN HIS ESSAY ON / INFLUENCE, "FIRES," REAL INFLUENCE COMES / FROM TEH CIRCUMSTANCES OF ONE'S / LIFE; "THE MOON AND THE TIDE," AS HE / CALLS IT. IN THAT RESPECT, I SUPPOSE / MY BLUE-COLLAR UPBRINGING AND LIFE-LONG / BATTLE WITH CHRONIC BRONCHITIS (FROM / WHICH I AM PRESENTLY SUFFERING) HAVE / SHAPED MY WORK AS MUCH AS ANYTHING / I'VE EVER SEEN IN A MUSEUM OR / BOOK.
[addressed to] SEAN CORCORAN / GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE / 900 EAST AVE. / ROCHESTER, NY 14607
