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From: njowske
Shan, so, carefully reading your last posting and re-reading mine, am I to assume you consider the desire for a movement towards beauty and complex accessible meaning somehow hostile towards post-modernism? (note: Kinkade and his ilk OBVIOUSLY peddle neither and Chiloolis is a very successful production decorator/ designer who has done a fine job, I might add, of capitilizing on the thuroughly post-modernist concept of murky authorship) Your contention I will "never get anywhere" unless I champion post modernism has the stank of "the advancement of art history" all over it. Shan, art history is a construct (how utterly post modernist of me! I'm giddy!) and we need not necessarily stand upon the stout shoulders of whatever art historians foist before us.... we are free to reinvent art as the times dictate, and ignore or reject whatever we find now irrelevant, as well. Good news, for those seventy five years the "avante-garde" have had a strong arm on the artworld, plenty of unknown dedicated artists, even intelligent enlightened ones, have been following other paths. (we don't know much about them, as they didn't FIT in Gardners FLOW. ) How utterly arrogant or painfully dutiful to assume that the best of post modernism suffers in the public eye only for the ranting of neolithic conservatives and the resultant public ignorance....not (possibly?!) for its insular, self serving, elitist, obtuse approach and its OWN self defining rejection of broad appeal. (!) There you go again, needing to educate and enlighten humankind on what art can be, instead of UNDERSTANDING what the human condition desires from art and already knows it is. Suffice it to say, those who chose to appeal only to Godess Academia, to learn hard her dictates and practice only what she has taught them to preach, will enjoy the support of her and her toadies, a nice life I know. Those who chose to serve a larger audience will have public support, but may have quite a bit of scrambling for critical recognition, fat jobs, the respect of "real" artists and impressive lines on their resume. (And those who chose to serve ONLY their own artistic vision may well starve.) Finally, perhaps I am not a conservative, but so damn progressive I seem downright backward. I read an interesting blurb the other day, by a stock femi-nazi post modernist currator defending her show, announcing "we have not abandoned our avant-garde ROOTS." (my emphasis) Think about it...who IS the establishment and who are the rebels anyway? And, before you assign to me anymore knee jerk assumptions on my taste in art, we need to discuss my definition of the word "beauty" at some length.