File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1998/avant-garde.9809, message 15


From: John Haber <jhaber-AT-whfreeman.com>
Subject: Hello
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:33:45 -0400


I want to say hello as a new member, check out the place, and mention
something I've been doing.  

A little over four years ago, I began describing on-line my response to
art exhibitions around New York City.  Before long my posts became a Web
page, now with over one hundred reviews and other essays - on art, art
history, the philosophy of art, and cultural politics.   Most run
perhaps 2,000 words, to track galleries and museums here and outside the
city, with extensive links to other Web essays on the same site.  

The longest takes 6,000 words to revisit Panofsky's interpretation of
van Eyck in light of three representative books of "new art history."
The shortest takes a page to compare art to chocolate.  All are mine.  

I'm embarrassed that this feels like spamming, but I'd of course be
flattered if you would check out my Web site, called Postmodernism and
Art History:  

	http://www.haberarts.com

The title, aside from pretension, will suggest my point of view:  issues
don't have to bury some gut feeling about art.  They should enrich art.
In fact, they make gut feelings possible, even while they provide a
critical self-awareness that allows the next step.  

I only wish I took more note of the shows and writers that have got me
thinking.  Maybe I'll learn something here from you guys and your
reactions.  You can respond critically directly to my page, if you would
like to spare this group, by writing me at

  jhaber-AT-haberarts.com

Or at least you can in a couple of days.  My home computer is broken!  

Best, jh


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