Date: Mon, 29 May 95 01:04:54 EDT
From: ma-AT-dsd.camb.inmet.com (Malgosia Askanas)
Subject: Re: Simon Ford's article


Whit, when you talk about doctrinaire expressions and appropriation of
the a-g by the doctrinists, are you referring to the manifesto-producing 
movements of the historical avant-garde?  Please clarify. 

- malgosia 

> Doctrinare expressions are not art, never will be, can't be, and can't
> possibly be avant guarde. The appropriation of the avant guarde by the
> doctrinists having failed, they are now setting about to renounce it's ideal
> - that in a nutshell is my reading of the pomo critique's prime motivation.


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