Re:<DocumentaX><Blast>Home-Affect
Jaakko Hucklebee (jessec@zipnet.net)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 10:47:21 -0400
I recently heard Adorno, a well traveled man, say that he didn't see
a difference between what was being done in the East and in the West.
I rather agree that the direction is no longer East vs West. The
prospect offered by Kant of art as a bridge to Transcendence vs the
prospect offered by Tolstoy of art as immanent morality itself does
seem to be a perspective operating today. If not the artwork as
self-contained (actually a modernist attack against tyranny) there is
still a choice of direction in that the artwork may be an icon of the
artist's personality, attracting and going to the artist; or the artwork
may go away from the artist to focus on a social event (The Art and
Labor Mural Project, for example). And just as book buying increases
with the amount of computer use of the average person(see the book
America's Time) so too easel painting will gain support as digital art
is appreciated. The effect of the computer, at this time, is "the more,
the more" given either affection of vision. What does remain of the
East/West is the desire of artists in the West to communicate with
artists in the East.
Although, it does seem to take a computer for me to communicate with
other artists in NYC too! The perspective-digital lingers as a trace
even when not useful. Is there a difference in the East?
Jaakko Hucklebee
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