File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/avant-garde.9707, message 7


Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 21:58:40 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: endowment


As has been pointed out numerous times; Art is socially and politically
multi-dimensional as is the propogation of any aesthetic -- it need not be
literally a protest art,  to engage such discourses in most cases the most
effective political art has not been so.  Those artist who like Che engage
in volunteerism tend not to suceed because they have not learned what needs
to be done, but instead built on a tradition that is often detached and out
moded, they preach, whine or self satisfyingly declare a position of moral
superiority.  Will what is that you want art to do?  and is art the best
way to do it? and from what position within what community and to whom do
you wish it to objectify or speak to?  Che was an adventurer and while he
cuts a romantic figure -- he served his cuse better as a martyr than as a
leader.




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