Speaking (as everybody has been) of Kenneth Goldsmith’s visit to Stephen Colbert,

please begin your thinking by referring to the original at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUMzz64ZnvQ

Then go on to this study in comparative spectrometry.

http://hifructose.com/2013/07/29/preview-scott-scheidlys-the-pinks-at-spoke-art-gallery/

After you’ve done that, fill in the bibliography with this wardrobe analysis from The Decay of Lying.

VIVIAN

Enjoy Nature! I am glad to say that I have entirely lost that faculty. People tell us that Art makes us love Nature more than we loved her before; that it reveals her secrets to us; and that after a careful study of Corot and Constable we see things in her that had escaped our observation. My own experience is that the more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature’s lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects. It is fortunate for us, however, that Nature is so imperfect, as otherwise we should have no art at all. Art is our spirited protest, our gallant attempt to teach Nature her proper place.