Gus Blaizdall - Writer, Owner Living Batch, Albuquerque
Artist
Anna Christine Hansen
Date1988
Mediumchromogenic color print
Dimensions20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1989 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1990.69.6
DescriptionA color photograph of writer Gus Blazidall with a written inscription and signature by Blazidall underneath. Blazidall is sitting at a desk with a coffee mug and scattered papers. There is a bookshelf behind him.The inscription reads :
"'...it is the negative use that wears the trousers.' J.L Austin" [excerpted from the longer J. L. Austin quote: "Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic--that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers."]
Caption continues below:
"...The struggle is what we await; out of reade (?), often; unadmitted + consigned to the outside; messily begun and left unfinished--in between: water; friendship, devotion and skeptically chastened hope. Is this it? Are we, yet? The beginning of enough..."
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