Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 14:46:36 -0700
From: Cody Dennison <cody.dennison-AT-citicorp.com>
Subject: Re: bad choices


Pardon me, but that's Dennison (Capital D) for you.


will wrote:
> 
> yup...
> but, then, citicorp reps like dennison can apparently, in all mauvais foi,
> assert-
>   "Wealth and poverty are, in some sense, arbitrary concepts laid down by
> remote categorizational processes; i.e beauty/wealth/poverty/ is in the eye
> of the beholder, that is, in some sense.
>    Or something like that..."
> perhaps this should be seen as a post-modern mission statement.
> just read dore ashton's book about rothko- and, what can i type? at the
> risk of being unacademic, i can only paraphrase- i did not take notes.
> at some point rothko said that a painter is not self-expressive but talks
> about the world. given his work, this has not been easily recognised. there
> is no small problem about expressivity and context. and irony. many would
> assert that 'The New American Painting', as it toured in europe was a
> propagandistic nationalism writ large to cement another part of post-war
> american hegemony. but, then, there's rothko.
> and, what is to me art.
> social inequities often almost consume me but i am looking at myself now
> and wondering if 'the aesthetic' isn't actually first of all adequate
> presentation- there is something like the knowledge that substantive
> societies are able to sleep with- a
> cognition of struggle that might no longer reproduce
> stressed inadequacy but bring us somewhere...
> assuredly, this is no new age and i would suggest that artists should be
> the first to know...
> 
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