File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-11-30.184, message 164


Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:12:14 -0500
From: Dick Dale <dick-AT-planet93.com>
Subject: Re: Biff


PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR MAILING LIST.

THANK YOU!At 06:45 PM 11/23/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Can the pleasures of a cartoon be conveyed by text?  Well, it's almost
>relevant to current discussion, so here an attempt to convey the Biff
>cartoon strip in today's Guardian:
>
>Top three frames show tv interviewer and artist:
>- Hello - I'm standing in the middle of Dartmoor with famous
>  international landscape artist Richard Long.
>  Richard... Tell us what you're up to, mate!
>- Well, Bill, basically I'm walking round in circles, taking a few
>  photos and making notes.
>- Why is that different from, say, the ordinary person just going for
>  a walk?
>- Because I make tons of money from flogging the photos and piles of
>  rock, etc to the art world!
>(Worried sheep: Phew! I thought that was Damien Hirst!)
>
>On a 2nd row, a bunch of arts management types, pictured with review
>mags., feasibility studies and lecture notes are saying:
>- Now you see - That's the kind of reactionary, anti "modern art" 
>  cartoon that's typical of this philistine country!
>- It reinforces the cynical stereotype of artists as a bunch of 
>  self-seeking tossers who think the world owes them a living...
>- When in fact we suits, dealers, curators, teachers and critics
>  know only too well - 
>- - that without them, we'd be out of a job!
>
>-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
>-- <adickson-AT-post.almac.co.uk>
>
>
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