“Turn of Phrase” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art: Doing violence to text as an art form
I think of words as a medium I can use for the clearest possible communication. So it was very strange to see artists using words as art materials — and often, for the purposes of obscuring communication rather than clarifying it. Some thoughts on “Turn of Phrase” at Bowdoin College Bowdoin is in the charming…