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From: shan wells
Jan, with all due respect, you seemed to miss my point entirely. As long as you remain hostile to post-modernism, you are never going to get anywhere. And folks who remain hostile to modernism will never get anywhere. If you say you understand but still think it sucks, then you don't understand it. There's a tremendous amount of value in current theory. Just as there is a tremendous amount of value in craft. You can't dismiss the last 75 years of artistic movement because of a bad industry or sordid practitioner. Debating whether one is better than the other is like arguing if white people are smarter than black people- lots of ego, no real substance. Sculpture evolved past the need for highly skilled traditional applications 100 years ago. Unfortunately, because the reaction against then was so strong from the conservatives, we have one of the most artistically illiterate populations in the world today. I more than grant you the Jeff Koons, Damien Hirsts and Mark Kostabis of the world are making a lot of dough out of very little talent, (for art anyway) , but the Dale Chihoolis, LeRoy Niemans and Thomas Kinkades of the world are doing equal, if not greater damage to the communal sense of aesthetics, and making even more money out of it. In other words, if you're going to criticize, make a new argument instead of compounding old wounds that don't really matter anyway. That's where the ignorance comes in- not an ignorance of art history, but a stubborn-headed denial that art evolves and that's a good thing. Throwing the baby out with the bath water may have been the continual province of avant- guard, but it is no longer- the field is flattened to the point where we can no longer push against anything to gain ground, and there is no more savior in reactionary rhetoric than in post-modern ironic disdain.