From: "michelle phil lewis-king" <king.lewis-AT-easynet.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Aesthetic bottom line.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:40:36 -0000


Anthony Beck wrote:

Two nights ago I saw for the first time The Golen Cockerel by
> Rimsky: the
> > second Act simply was transfixing.

" To fetishize is to reify, which makes the object opaque, distant, alien,.
The fetishizing process operates restrictively at the level of displacement,
vacillation and passivity. To fetishize is to trivialize the palpability of
the experience of the object "

Ross Bleckner 'Transcendent Anti-Fetishism' from 'Blasted Allegories' an
anthology of writings by contemporary artists.

phil.