Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 20:04:14 -0400 From: Ostrow/Kaneda <so5-AT-is2.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: Hello? In the late 50's early 60's, when it came to art making many artists aspired to occupy a position characterized by indifference and indertermancy.Indetermancy (no fixed meaning) and indifference (a means to over come the notions of transcendental subjectivism associate with art) were represented by John Cage (who an an extrodinary influence on this generation) as the means to overcome the appeal of taste and assure the self interest of art and not that of the artists. These were the attitudes that were thought to guarantee that art would be art and not become something else. Both meaning and intentionality as wellas all other extra -aesthetic explanations were thought to play into the hands of the critics and their middle brow audiences who were suspected of both undermining the authority of art and limiting its potential effect. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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