File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-11-30.184, message 72


From: AERIALEDGE-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 13:34:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Transnacionala review


>What a boring topic and what kind of mythical (?) thinking.

>Beuys wasnt a politician and his political statements have to be
>seen with very special situations, for example nice american rockets.

What a boring response to an interesting statement. Of course any political
(or other) statement needs contextualization. I think Klefkal's original post
was attempting that for Beuys in a useful way. & I think one cld talk
usefully talk of Cage in similar terms. Seems "detoxified response" cld
widely characterize his artistic practice both before & after (late 50s) he
became publicly political.

--Rod Smith 



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