Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:48:07 -0400 From: Ostrow/Kaneda <so5-AT-is2.nyu.edu> Subject: Re: Hello? > >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? > Striving for the ideal allows us to know what is possible at any given moment -- striving for the possible brings closure, stagnation and eventually collapse -- as we are often reminded we should not confuse the frame for that which it frames nor think the supplement is actally intrinsic to its subject -- my apologies its just one of those Kant and Adorno days here in NY were there are no reminders of nature and indifference means walking by a panhandler even though you do have spare change. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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