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RE: Getting Back at Le Corbusier : Spray-painting the Villa Savoye
Calling out "pompous statements of authority" and turning them back around on their owners - using their own creations - is a brilliant idea. It's tougher translating this into writing, though. How would we tackle Louis Sullivan's book The Autobiography of an Idea, or Buckminster Fuller's I Seem to be a Verb. Wondering if we can give these acts of pomposity a name. How about "Starsplaining"?
Thanks @kenfinkel! Yes it would be fun to employ this same strategy in reaction to text-based pomposity. Actually a lot of these graffiti works were direct visual translations of quotations from Corb's book Toward a New Architecture...so maybe it's not a big leap from here. For instance the floral wallpaper was a reaction to his line, "Your imitation stone stucco and your wall-papers are impertinence, and no good modern picture could ever be hung on your walls, for it would be lost in the welter of your furnishings." How smug is that!? I think "starsplaining" is a perfect word for it!
"starsplaing" haha sooo good