the build up does not stop
the build up fights back
the build up cannot lose
“It was on purpose that I started looking miserable, humiliated, hounded, and haunted, bedeviled, bewildered, and at my wit’s end. Some other comedians can get away with laughing at their own gags. Not me. The public just will not stand for it. And that is all right with me. All of my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, ‘Look at the poor dope, wilya?’
Because of the way I looked on the stage and screen the public naturally assumed that I felt hopeless and unloved in my personal life. Nothing could be farther from the fact. As long back as I can remember I have considered myself a fabulously lucky man. From the beginning I was surrounded by interesting people who loved fun and knew how to create it. I’ve had few dull moments and not too many sad and defeated ones.”
-Buster Keaton, in his autobiography My Wonderful World of Slapstick (1960)
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Martin Munkacsi (American, born Hungary, 1896-1963), Motorcyclist, Budapest, ca. 1923 Medium Gelatin silver print, 29.2 x 23.5 cm (11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.), Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
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William Kentridge. Drawing from Stereoscope 1998–99. Charcoal, pastel, and colored pencil on paper, 47 1/4 x 63” (120 x 160 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, with special contributions from Anonymous, Scott J. Lorinsky, Yasufumi Nakamura, and The Wider Foundation
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Bill Viola, The Tempest (study after the Raft), 2005, Color video on LCD flat panel mounted on wall
