File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1998/avant-garde.9805, message 27


From: "Ann Klefstad" <klefkal-AT-cp.duluth.mn.us>
Subject: Re: Hello?
Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 12:52:17 -0700




If one is trying to dismantle  the authority that is engendered by
> authorship  and intention within art -- there must be a rhyme and a
reason
> for this --  One voiew is it is an exploration of the role that
authorship
> plays the other is what are the aesthetic 

its an interpretation that
> arises from trying to put Cage back into his becoming rather than placing
> him in the context of what he became.  
> 

In interested reply--

Of course trying to kill off the author is something that has happened in
all artforms in the same decades but it seems nearly impossible. Signature
style and our reading of art for authorial intent are so deeply ingrained
that stylelessness can easily be read as style. Is it even possible to do
such a thing in the field of *art*, which in this century is tied into the
general culture by little other than the narratives of artists' (and
musicians') lives? Maybe philosophy could grow a branch of sound more
easily than art and music could lose the concept of style and authorship?

Ann K.


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