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Re: What the hell is that? (art book guidance)
Posted:
Jan 13, 2004 12:18 PM
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> Jaime, not that it makes any difference, nor am I
> trying to one up your post, but, Armand, Harry his
> brother, and their father, Julius, were all involved
> in laundering money from the Comintern to the CPUSA.
> Julius was a founding member of Communist Labor Party
> in the early twenties. They were a very interesting
> family indeed.
>
> If I may, the "isms" found in the history of art over
> the last hundred and fifty years merely exist, in my
> opinion. Someone, some force, some dogged
> individual, or group, decided that something being
> painted or otherwise made broke away, extended,
> attacked, developed, what had preceded. I don't know
> what can be done about these "isms" "schools" or
> "movements". Sh_t happens, and strong minded,
> sometimes hard working artists, or hard working
> promoters, are able to affect the market and the
> popular appetite for consuming a particular fashion
> of art. Art is a tough game to play. I guess that's
> why so few of so many can succeed.
>
> I've wondered for a while if art would be stronger or
> weaker if there were fewer artists. I think more is
> better. As we reached a certain end of history
> (Fukuyama's idea), we may now be witnessing the end
> of art. (I think someone else said that) Not in the
> sense that there is no more art but rather art as a
> new model, a mosh pit of pluralism, like mud
> wrestling, in transition. It's "anything goes"
> today. Anybody paints. Elephants, whatever. There
> is some craft. Sometimes it seems a contrivance, a
> vehicle constructed to carry a career. Also, the
> extent to which a culture can amuse itself with art,
> is the extent to which it has time and money to burn.
> And, God help us if the middleclass becomes poorer.
> I would not have sold a painting today, which I
> I did. Keep the money rolling and everybody nibbles,
> even me. All I need is a nibble in this rich
> country.
>
> Painting can be learned, but then all you've got is,
> another painter. What seems to fascinate critics is
> cleverness, subtlety, humor, intellect, and then
> craft. But sometimes even the critic feels like
> throwing in the towel.
My compliments sir: your words ring out with calibre and integrety!
Let me wholly endorse your last paragraph. It is a tragedy in the makeing that a new "fad" in Art funding Circles looks to be "Criticism". Much like giving "time" off grants were vogue in the last decade( and what we really got back was Artists leaving the area for better climates) I wonder about the value of feeding "critics".
I lobby heavily for a "market" driven Art community as a better use of funds than the funding of "soft" jobs for over indulged "entitlement" minded individualists.
Onto books: My current joy is "Pre-columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World". I just love the title. Written up to and published in 1993 it is a exciting thesis on looking at Art; She cites pre columbian sources for Moore( Sam take a lookie here) Gaugin( take a peek Mr. Fallon) and Frankie L. Wright( everyone!).
Try your local library and lets cut this topic up!
coyote 256
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