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We close with Frank Riga's study of Michael Hoffmann's reinterpretation of Bottom in his 1999 film of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which treats Bottom and his interactions with Faerie seriously rather than farcically and resonates throughout the film in a shifting of focus from the aristocratic court to the dignity of the common man and his worthiness to enter Faerie. Seattle is sort of a farcically civic-minded place. See Donald Judd's Bed" farcically skewers the devolution of Minimalism's aesthetic program of objectivity and impersonality into a fawning cult of personality (ads for Elvis's Graceland immediately come to mind). |
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