Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:21:27 -0500
From: Anthony Stephenson <artspec-AT-injersey.com>
Subject: Re: 'Real without being


>To "focus on the economy of power that is involved in what I see to be
>the threat of having the  'Real'  become an art that is thought to be
>actual, ideal and not abstract" is a good idea for a critic, or a
>journalist. But what kind of art does this perpetuate? Shall we further
>the depravity of horror as an "aesthetization of the everyday"? They say
>Hollywood and the recording industry does enough of that already. While
>focusing on the mechanisms of technique is important for potential
>expression, shouldn't the focus on what might actually be ideal remain
>paramount?
>-aPS

"This was the crux of my point or atleast I thought so.
My problem is that at present in our increasingly totalized and
instrumentalized environment that we must begin to decide what is our
Ideal
rather than merely purchasing one acrtically."

-And it was in just such a capitalized notion of the ideal that I feared
would be troublesome. With the staking out of the territories found in
categorization, the conflicts of ideologies arise. Against a
conservatism of dogma, the liberal practice of understanding is an
ever-changing attitude. And, like the avant-garde, notions of the ideal
continually change. And, beyond the avant-garde, the value of currency
changes again.
-aPS


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