Thursday, March 23, 2006
Woman of words - Montreal Hour on the art of JULIE DOUCET
:: Posted by max @ 3/23/2006 10:04:00 PM From last week's edditon of the Hour [free weekly]
Woman of words
Isa Tousignant
Local comics celeb Julie Doucet loses her imagery for the sake of words
"With a name like Dirty Plotte, it would be hard to forget Julie Doucet ever made comics. But that's what so many people are pleading. Over the last couple years I've gotten promo from Galerie Graff, Galerie Clark, publisher Drawn and Quarterly and now Galerie B-312 stating, emphatically, that Doucet has left comics behind after a decade-long career to concentrate all her energies on "high" art. Now to me, this is a non-statement, the kind of gobbledygook I hear so often in the art world but that interests only those prone to making grand distinctions to start with. That anyone in their 30s can state that they have left something by the wayside, never to return to it, strikes me as a brutish approach to life. And that galleries and publishers choose this as a promotion angle strikes me as an act of desperation....-->>"
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