Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 13:05:16 -0700 From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com> Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: "the art advances and the artisan recedes" My take on Brad's dictum is "command" in which the artist obeys an order to create beauty. Those who can do that are world class artists. If you can't produce art on command you are a nobody, a failed artist who showed youthful promise, a wannabe cynic who just couldn't handle commercial success, a misfit with only one boring note to play, a dead spark who got about 15 secnds and blew it, an inarticulate rude dinner companion with bad breath, never to be a member of the Century Club or the Academy of Artists and Belle Lettrists, not even worthy of a five-and-dime Guggenhein, grown dismissably old before aging gracefully on a MacArthur or as a near-miss Poet Laureate, shit not even worth bailing out of misery with a raggedy ass retrospective at a downtown roach motel where candy-haired youngsters puke into the hard-wrought sculpture not recognized as once cutting edge sublime by two people, the artist's fucked over bedmate and the one family member who paid the artist to not come home reeking of hatful condescencion -- by this is meant an artist sans adjective, nor slathered head to toe in derivative promotional goo, especially not the self-splattered acoutured, scowlingly withered to thricely undeserved low esteem. I also took Brad to mean that the capability of producing beauty on command is no excuse for being a world class shit, though those attributes certainly appear inseparable as if one and one is zero. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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