File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/avant-garde.9704, message 38


Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:48:19 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: one


>>>Why immerse? Why WORRY so much about art?
>>>
>>>Rereading L. Moholy-Nagy's magnum opus, VISION IN MOTION (Chicago:
>>>Theobald, 1947)...
>
>Okay, and what you have said is also the view I take in my next essay book
>(MODERNISM SINCE POSTMODERNISM-San Diego State University Press, due out in
>June-but my focus was on the importance of Moholy-Nagy for us now in 1997
>more than on the old poMo/Mo dichotomy. What is your take on this? I would
>love to know it.
>
First I am not interested in  a Mo- po/Mo dichtomy -- I think it is
fictive. as for the  Moholy Nagy-- I haven't  looked at in at least 20
years.  I think that the  general discourse of constructivism ( this
includes the productivist but not Suprematism) though holds up as it not
only engages  new media but also seeks to maintain the relevency of
existent ones.  In this there is an element of the self-determinancy
associated with the notion of the post-historical --  much constructivist
work is only art because it can be interperted as such.




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