love for sale (a winter love study hall)
Do you think this is the way of things?
Provoked by Barbara Kruger to think into the discomfort of where this leads, I invite you to join me in the place where I began my exploration of love: Is it commodity? A prize? And at what cost?
Kruger, Barbara, and Linker, Kate. Love for Sale. Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Register here for winter love study hall on Friday 18-Mar from 5:30-6:15pm EST, where we’ll explore love for sale.
I wanted to share some links and thoughts from our love for sale study hall
K.D. Lang (Cole Porter) _ Love For Sale - YouTube << press play…
About the song:
Charles Schwartz, writer of Cole Porter: A Biography, notes that Porter’s melancholy ballad “Love for Sale” was first performed by Kathryn Crawford, as the prostitute May in the Broadway musical The New Yorkers. The musical opened on December 8, 1930. — Cole Porter – Love For Sale Lyrics | Genius Lyrics
I discovered an Indonesian movie named love for sale, where
A mature single man is challenged by his friends to bring a girlfriend to his wedding. He doesn’t want to be embarrassed and forced to use the dating site which then brings him to a girl that can accompany him to the wedding. — Love for Sale (2018) - IMDb
…based on the plot summary and the trailer (in a language I don’t speak, but I could see) a mature man and a young girl.
yet again.
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In the book, love for sale (that got all this started for me), Kate Linker writes
Her art is concerned with the positioning of the social body, with the ways in which our thoughts, attitudes, and desires are determined by society’s dictates.
the social body… << so many demands inside us and on us
Barbara Kruger: I Shop Therefore I Am | Amor Sciendi - YouTube << this is a wonderful video where a teacher breaks down one of Kruger’s iconic works (of which there are many)…it is a pleasure to listen to (he has a really nice way of explaining things) and will get you thinking…
to be continued >> more love talks, more Barbara Kruger!
actually, there are times when size does matter:
This is the back outer wall of the The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles, 2019. Also installed in the book, love for sale on p. 26, bottom right (scroll up two posts) as UNTITLED, QUESTIONS. 1989.