Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 07:53:48 -0800 (PST)
From: { brad brace } <bbrace-AT-netcom.com>
Subject: Re: rhetoric


On Mon, 10 Feb 1997, Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:

> Bill baby lighten up you protest much to much and badly at that. I know
> your enamored of the hyper- but lets keep the readymade texts to a minimum.
> I know that you have no interest in originality but even the banal can be
> beaten to death.  But then again you obviously don't believe that.
> LOve SAUL
> 

Actually, I spoke with Bill just the other day; he was in good-spirits and
had all but vanished. Originality cannot be circumscribed. He does remind
us however, that "READYMADE ART-HISTORY CULTS and the READING of ENTRAILS
are STRICTLY PROHIBITED." 


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'Art' must adandon any critical pretensions, any dialetical illusions, any
rational hope, and move, like the world, into a paradoxical phase, an
ironic and paroxystic phase.

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The hypermodern minimizes the familiar, the known, the recognizable; it
suspends identity, relations, and history. The modes of rhetoric are
reduced to banalities, generalities and institutionalized textualities.


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