Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:07:13 -0400
From: Ostrow/Kaneda <so5-AT-is2.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: avant-garde failing-fortune


>	But Brad, this sort of attack on the "establishment" has been
>typical of the avant-garde since the 19th century. And so has the claim
>that everyone is an artist...
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>cheers,
>George

George
Forget it Brad can not be reasoned with -- his complaint is neither
reasoned or purposeful-- it is merely mimicking a well worn complaint -- if
he had gotten recognition from  an insularly, tired, white-western-centrist
"art-historical" who wrote for a suitably pretentious
 "artworld-magazines" that ndoctrinates the naive and unexpecting viewer
with their increasingly irrelevant and overbearing, authoritarian sense of
"expertise" that encourages them   to parasitically extract and explicate
 whatever vitality might remain in the "critically sanctioned"  art he
would not be  merely another grumpy prospector of attention.
SAUL

>On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, { brad brace } wrote:
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>> 	` Well, hello, yet-again; I'm that angry, nasty, fence-sitting,
>> old-world specimen: the slash artist/critic. I've been paid a proud
>> pittance to tirelessly promote this The art-gallery advertisers and
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>> institutions just love-it, and anxiously await their turn! I simply can't
>> afford to realize that this hopelessly-linear, neo-western, art-historical
>> fable has unabashedly mutated into unimaginative, inappropriate,
>> contentious nonsense. My artworld buddies (colleagues) and I, simply
>> *must* continue to have the last word on all matters that we deem
>> "culturally significant." That's our singular, self-serving story, and
>> we're sticking-to-it, even in this new global age of the informed,
>> impassioned amateur... suddenly, there are way too many other pesky,
>> conflicting stories and troublesome histories; all-this amidst a growing
>> disdain for the old-artworld cabal and its "art-experts!"  We (and you),
>> will have none of that! Our wanning credibility has long since snapped and
>> we are sorely vexed by other voices. I've become merely another grumpy,
>> gnarled prospector, long since out-of-art...
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