Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 19:35:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-netcom.com>
Subject: Re: make yourself at home



On Wed, 22 May 1996, R. Hayward ph. 02-2301422 wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 May 1996 dhiggins-AT-csbh.mhv.net wrote:
> 
> > >        Just say NO, to arts-funding-- ``...life of the mind and the heart
> > >that an engagement with the arts and humanities always provides.  It is
> > >our sincere belief that anything which threatens these institutions
> > >weakens our country.  It is as simple as that.''
> > >
> This is very strange... clash of words?? - mind - life - heart - 
> arts- institutions -  it is our sincere belief  -our country- 
> - sounds very presidential. A politician or an artist? 
> But anyway, has anyone got any ideas on the subject -'is the role of the 
> avant-garde over'. Has the postmodernist culture really killed the 
> avant-garde?

...run as fast as the most remarkable artists of the twentieth century
could, the image was constantly outstripping them. They were hindered in
this race by their own gradual withdrawal into specialization on an
'artistic' plane, separate from society. This act of self-categorization
also brought them into the range of a new breed of art historians. As the
artists ran desperately to catch up with technology, they were being
pecked all over by flocks of curators, art critics, dealers and
technocratic art historians, all of whom were multiplying with such
rapidity that they have now become a prevalent species. The elimination of
Arts-funding would go a long way toward correcting this situation. 

/:b


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> > Only a rich kid could possibly say something like that! I hereby resolve
> > not to save or consider anything from this Brace guy until he apologizes to
> > the world of serious people.
> 
> 
> 	NO..., someone who's thoroughly disgusted with
> institutionally-sanctioned despots... (that wouldn't be you would it
> Dick?), just might say 'something like that.'
> 
> 
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