Let me be clear of one thing: I love all my fellow artists past and present and respect their efforts and ambitions without question. But in the ring, I'll try to whip them all to bloody pulps. In the game of attempting art, or of trying to confront it, the stakes require "do or die". In soldierly terms: no quarter is given.
wc ----- Original Message ---- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, November 14, 2009 5:38:38 PM Subject: Re: Question for Mando Tough month for you - first your sense of entitlement is questioned - and now you are a poser - what next, perhaps your artistic integrity will be questioned given your subjectivity and sense of creativity does not seem to exceed that of your clientele But never fear this will pass - its jjust the sharks smelling blood in the water On 11/14/09 6:10 PM, "armando baeza" <[email protected]> wrote: Posturing.... Hmmmm. mando On Nov 14, 2009, at 2:39 PM, William Conger wrote: > I think it's much more complicated than this simple assumption that > all curators choose according to their own tastes, even if they > have them. It may not be possible to disentangle all the > influences and coercions involved. The silent question is "What > should I choose?" and it may override, "What can I choose?" Who is > really free from these kinds of judgments, excepting of course, > those who never need to make public choices? > > Frankly, I think all this posturing about the freedom and purity of > the artist in creative choices and imaginative range is a lot of > BS. It only reinforces the silly and cartoony sentimentalist > romanticism of the artists and further estranges the artist from > society and its serious undertakings. Scientists rarely indulge in > such pretensions, and neither do professionals in other fields. > > wc > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: armando baeza <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, November 14, 2009 3:18:06 PM > Subject: Re: Question for Mando > > If one becomes a curator, the work invariably reflects the one's > personal taste. The expertise quality only means that the choices > they may make are broader between two aesthetically subjective > points, what do you think? > mando > > On Nov 14, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Chris Miller wrote: > >> What about the other part of my question, Mando? >> >> Do you think it requires any kind of expertise to curate exhibits >> in an art >> museum, and if so, how can that expertise be determined? >> >> >> ..................................................................... >> ........ >> ... >> >> >>> My original feeling from day one, is that teachers get in the way of >> creativity, specially those with the most success. Perhaps true >> philosophers >> in aesthetics would make better teachers of art. >> >> The area where, in aesthetics, all art exists,regardless of taste. >> Where we >> all perceive the essence of all things, individually differently, >> is a Gold >> Mine ,Why would teachers want to direct that, in individual >> creativity by >> teaching the >> successful path of others and discouraging one's individual taste. >> >> I think art was never made to be taught or controlled be >> anyone,except by the >> freedom of each individual's will to make their own path. >> mando >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Hotel >> Taking a trip? Click here to compare hotel rates and find a great >> deal. >> http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/c? >> cp=f5TmTAy1IP7e9UodHlsgJwAAJz6c >> l_zTaptgNR5c8Mer1v9kAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATRAAAA >> AA= --
