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... > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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