Hi - What I'm confused about here - hasn't this been worked over, say by Daniel Buren's Five Texts or the group BPMT (Buren, Parmentier, Mosset, Toroni) in the 70s? There's always been a dialectic, sometimes dialog, between painting as conservative and overdetermined, and more open approaches such as Warhol, etc. On one hand, there's money involved in connoisseurship at stake (as well as artschool painting departments at times); on the other, there's real dissatisfaction with this. The shift has been from painting as a traditionally-determined modernist object, to painting as contestation, and from a set of consensual attributes to Wittgensteinian language-gaming. (Buren, who was influenced by Barthes, was central here (not to mention Derrida's work on deconstruction and painting).) Add cultural studies into the mix, and the habitus comes into play - painting as a mobile term within the discursive formation of "art" (which has also been overdetermined, etc.).
- Alan _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
