From: "Ann Klefstad" <klefkal-AT-cp.duluth.mn.us>
Subject: Re: Recommendations anyone?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:51:59 -0800



Yes, I first read Hickey's essays in ArtIssues, to which I was a charter
subscriber (I've got every single one except the last 2 of '98 cause I sent
my check too late. And now those are sold out. Anyone want to donate their
copies?)  Then I realized I'd seen his work elsewhere--he did music
criticism, etc., plus of course was on staff at Big Art Magazines etc. I
don't know why he isn't more well known. Not _grise_ enuf to be an
_eminence_, I guess. He did a lecture here that was just the most fun I've
ever had in a lecture hall while someone was talking. This month's "Simple
Hearts" column on the difference between cool and irony is also
lovely--evoked for me dear Prof. Ross, may he live forever, a man so
committed to his words he had to stop and collect himself occasionally, who
did a beautiful rant on the callowness of "ironic" readings of
literatures--the shortcircuiting of the specific richness of texts that
it's responsible for, etc. Read the words and pay attention to what they
say, say Ross.

ArtIssues once excerpted a section from the Areopagitica and ran it as a
piece among pieces; they've done other anachronia too, latest being Mary
McCarthy. This collapsing of history is to me the most endearing thing they
do. Unfortunately too many of their reviews read like logrolling, but I
don't really mind, as I don't live in LA any more. I can then pretend that
the work described really does do all those things.

Ann K

> > "Invisible Dragons" (more cohesive thesis--) ...
> 
> Yes! His writings also appear each month in ArtIssues (Santa Monica)
> magazine -- an elegant, forthright, slim and modest publication... Only
> $20 month for artists -- 8721 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 4, Los Angeles, CA
> 90069.
> 
> 
> /:b
> 



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