071203 black & red cross
Saturday, July 12, 2003
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Barbara Rose, in writing about Joseph Marioni [Joseph Marioni: Paintings 1970-1998: A Survey, Rose Art Museum, Boston, 1998], says something that is related to what I barely hinted at yesterday regarding the falseness of currently culturally accepted "creativity," something for which I'm just beginning to find words.
Marioni's analytic work is conceptual in the sense that Poussin, Cezanne and Johns are painter philosophers, not just illustrators of philosophical textbooks. In his examination of first premises, Marioni addresses such issues as progress in art, the communicability of intention, and the potential for concentrated, centered, introspective art in a fragmented, undisciplined, randomly collaged culture such as that of the present (italics mine).
Something else from Rose that interests me:
Since judgments are meaninful only in relation to quality, the death of art criticism is the logical, if ironic, consequence of proclamations of the death of painting on the part of "art critics." For what once was criticism now functions as publicity and public relations for the expanding art entertainment industry. Value judgments have no role to play on the leveled field of appropriated, simulated, mediated, hybridized, and recombined- but never entirely invented anew- second-hand images fueling that vast cultural waste recycling project known as post-modernism.
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Karin is in Geneva.
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See Raymond on David Wiley's weblog (second from right, obscured by his laptop).
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