{"id":1365,"date":"2009-02-08T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/02\/postcards-from-americas-edge\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T19:10:10","slug":"postcards-from-americas-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/postcards-from-americas-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards From America&#8217;s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/06\/arts\/design\/06evan.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">from the NY Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/06\/arts\/design\/06evan.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/postcards.jpg\" alt=\"postcards.jpg\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nothing comes from nowhere, least of all art. Every body of work has its points of origin, its logic of personal urgency and cultural impetus, the coordinates of which are often found in an artist\u2019s childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the logic eludes us. Sometimes we can piece it together through intuition, scholarship or the clues an artist leaves behind. Occasionally a skeleton key is passed down that explains more than was ever thought possible. Such was the case with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/v\/vincent_van_gogh\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Vincent Van Gogh.\" style=\"color: #000066\">van Gogh<\/a>\u2019s letters, and in its own way, with \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/06\/arts\/design\/06evan.html\" title=\"More articles about Walker Evans.\" style=\"color: #000066\" target=\"_blank\">Walker Evans<\/a>\u00a0and the Picture Postcard\u201d at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/06\/arts\/design\/06evan.html\" title=\"More articles about the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\" style=\"color: #000066\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/06\/arts\/design\/06evan.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the NY Times \u00a0 Nothing comes from nowhere, least of all art. Every body of work has its points of origin, its logic of personal urgency and cultural impetus, the coordinates of which are often found in an artist\u2019s childhood. Sometimes the logic eludes us. Sometimes we can piece it together through intuition, scholarship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}