Dennis Hollingsworth

Mark Von Schlegell

Art Center's MA dept. presents
critic and award-winning science fiction writer

MARK VON SCHLEGELL

2:00PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 13TH
AHMANSON AUDITORIUM
hillside, Art Center

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I remember Mark telling me of his thoughts about Napoleon, of how he made his reputation from the tactics in one of his first battles, one that happened to also be less heroic than David represented (he hung on to the back of a donkey over the Alps... I guess the decision to cross the famed mountain range was acurately portrayed, but not the act itself). They called it "Marengo", and later people made chicken dishes christened with that name. Subsequent battles would invoke the legacy of the first, and yet it was the donkey ride that colored Napoleon with glory thereafter. This, he said, is a model that also describes the art world.

...Or something like that.

We'll have to see this Friday what exactly he meant.