Re: <documenta X><blast> home

Alan Jen Sondheim (sondheim@panix.com)
Mon, 18 Aug 1997 19:46:20 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Jouke Kleerebezem wrote:

>
> _The bottomline aboutness of art is art_
>
I honestly don't understand this. If you mean that art is about art
primarily, I think you've overlooked most critical/multicultural
theory of the past couple of decades. If you mean that art is at bottom
self-referential, you're appealing to an aesthetics I disagree with,
placing it in an aphoristic context as if it were the case.

I doubt you mean either of these. I also don't think there is a "bottom-
line," unless you believe that art is somehow rooted, foundational.

So I'm lost.

Alan

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