Baton Rouge, LA, 1992
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A-Jump Books
American
Baton Rouge, LA, 1992
Postcards
1992
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
2007.0106.0022
Inscriptions verso (printed): Ron Jude / Baton Rouge, LA, 1992 / 22 / © 2006 Ron Jude www.ronjude.com
[postmarked ITHACA, NY 14851 USPS APR 26, 2007]
(black ink): 4/26/2007
LIKE RICHARD HAKLUYT, THE ACADEMIC / ARTIST IS AN ARMCHAIR CHRONICLER OF / SORTS, USUALLY OPERATING ON THE PERIPHERY / OF THE REAL ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES. / UNLIKE HAKLUYT, HOWEVER, THE ACADEMIC / ARTIST, FROM TIME TO TIME, SETS OUT ON / HIS OWN EXPLORATIONS. ON THE DOWNSIDE, / THESE EXPLORATIONS CAN END UP DOING / NOTHING MORE THAN RE-CHARTING PREVIOUSLY / DISCOVERED TERRITORY, CHURNING OUT WORK / THAT IS INTELLIGENT AND WELL-CRAFTED, YET / UTTERLY INDIFFERENT TO THE TRUE SPIRIT OF / DISCOVERY. HOWEVER, TRE IS ALWAYS THE / POSSIBILITY OF OCCASIONAL SURPRISING, ALBEIT / ESOTERIC, EPIPHANIES THAT ARE STUBBORNLY / UNCONCERNED WITH THE EGOS AND WHIMS OF / MONARCHIES, POPES, AND COMMERCE.
[addressed to] SEAN CORCORAN / GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE / 900 EAST AVE. / ROCHESTER, NY 14607
[postmarked ITHACA, NY 14851 USPS APR 26, 2007]
(black ink): 4/26/2007
LIKE RICHARD HAKLUYT, THE ACADEMIC / ARTIST IS AN ARMCHAIR CHRONICLER OF / SORTS, USUALLY OPERATING ON THE PERIPHERY / OF THE REAL ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES. / UNLIKE HAKLUYT, HOWEVER, THE ACADEMIC / ARTIST, FROM TIME TO TIME, SETS OUT ON / HIS OWN EXPLORATIONS. ON THE DOWNSIDE, / THESE EXPLORATIONS CAN END UP DOING / NOTHING MORE THAN RE-CHARTING PREVIOUSLY / DISCOVERED TERRITORY, CHURNING OUT WORK / THAT IS INTELLIGENT AND WELL-CRAFTED, YET / UTTERLY INDIFFERENT TO THE TRUE SPIRIT OF / DISCOVERY. HOWEVER, TRE IS ALWAYS THE / POSSIBILITY OF OCCASIONAL SURPRISING, ALBEIT / ESOTERIC, EPIPHANIES THAT ARE STUBBORNLY / UNCONCERNED WITH THE EGOS AND WHIMS OF / MONARCHIES, POPES, AND COMMERCE.
[addressed to] SEAN CORCORAN / GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE / 900 EAST AVE. / ROCHESTER, NY 14607
