Date: Fri, 02 Aug 96 16:03:43 MEZ From: Heiko Recktenwald <UZS106-AT-IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Subject: Re: Hockney interview On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 14:51:41 +0000 Paul Melia said: > >>Anyway, I read a very refreshing interview with hockney this afternoon, >>thanks. Yep, what is avantgarde today.... > > >Can we persuade you to say more about the interview? First of all, voila: >www.zen.co.uk/home/page/paul.m It made me really happy. How he says: "It works", Rulers etc... Yes, drawing is where everything starts. But I am still thinking about an proper answer to the question on mass- culture and urbanity. Towns were freedom in ancient times, this seems to make the global village a global town. But it cannot replace real life I think, metropolitan life lives from direct experience and everything else is a provincial copy, sotosay the kitsch version of urbanity. To use email is urban but email etc in themself are not. Hope this makes some sense in english, at least as a starting point. Some people from Bonn did translate the DH authobiography for an editor in cologne. Beautiful book, Id prefer the english version.., but nobody buys it. My father had a print of Celia in his working room. DHs drawings have a lot of reality. I dont draw very often, its too energy consuming, to concentrate on looking at things etc, but sometimes I do it for 5 minutes or maybe 10 Heiko Speaking of London, VW made a great description of the hyde park in Mrs Dalloway, walking trough the town, urban dimensions, wasnt there an airplane too? --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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