Books: Book of dog paintings
Pawing through The Artful Dog, a yip yapping aesthetic experience, I saw where they included Charles Schultz's famous quote, "Happiness is a warm puppy." Ginger the spoiled big city Sheltie here, telling you that I am not one to accept peanuts. Happiness is a warm puppy with a diamonds-encrusted collar, mes amis mais oui! Diamonds are a jolie fille's best friend. Whoops wink wink. Seems we've gotten some distance from that aesthetic experience about which I meant to tell you. The Artful Dog contains reproductions of dog-inclusive art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is to say, the only works in there that are truly worth a nose-high-in-the-air-sniff. It's not as if they let me into that institution, may the so-called Homo sapiens that run it rot without a bone, but I do see a Collie sorta Sheltie sorta woofer in what might be a Mary Cassat painting. If you ask me, my knowing that artist should entitle me to enter the museum. But I'll have to settle for peeing in the Park near it, and soaking in the culture from this great book.
2008.07.27, 10:53 PM // 0 comments
