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> > > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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