File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-11-30.184, message 66


Date: 	Fri, 18 Oct 1996 08:59:41 -0400
From: Leopol Bourjoi <bourjoi-AT-odyssee.net>
Subject: Re: Transnacionala review


Maybe they can say and try to prove any of those points of view. If we
believe them, they succeded. But if high-art is only about manipulating
people like advertizing, I would stop being an artist right away and
become a plumber.

They where only trying to grab territorys.

=Leopol B.> 
> Someone else might also say that the 'avant-garde' curtailed its critical
> bankruptcy (and widened its scope), by admitting the lack of difference
> between various cultural media -- that the boundaries between high-art,
> advertising, print-media, film were indeed porous. As to _intent,_ there's
> probably no statement that can be made about advertising that can't also
> be made about high-art.
> 
> --


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