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So what's wrong with art?

 
  

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Kit-Cat Club
08:48 / 11.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Flux = The Man Who Loves You:


Good lord. do you realize that I've had that book as required reading in at least three classes I've taken in the past four years? sigh. and Benjamin... but I like Walter Benjamin.


Well, yeah, it is standard reading - but perhaps someone who wasn't aware of it or hadn't done art on any theoretical level might find it useful. I remember being quite struck by parts of it when I was doing some work on the display of art as display of power, and it *is* relevant to a discussion of reproduction.

Mr Lentil - you could abbreviate me to KCC for ease of use... BTW, thanks for being nice about my picture too.

As for reproduction - there's a bit in Berger (sorry, Flux) where he talks about pinboards being the real art galleries at the moment, where you can assemble visual art outside the regime of the public gallery and the dictates of 'taste'.

Me, I like prints anyway.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
10:17 / 11.01.02
Oh, Kit Cat, I wasn't knocking Berger, just lamenting the fact that I was assigned that book so many times over, which is a comment on the repetition, sameness, and dullness of many of the art history classes I've taken over the years. That is a good book, and obviously very relevant to this discussion.

Lentil: throwing events like that certainly does mean you have to have a fairly large place...when I was doing things like that, I was living with 7 other folks in an enormous loft in Brooklyn, and the place was already known as an art collective before I moved there, so it was fairly easy to get things going. People would come to nearly any event thrown at the space on reputation alone...

I can't emphasize enough the value of having your show DJ'd by folks spinning soul, oldies, 80s pop, indie punk, and hip hop though...
 
  

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