From: Marilyn Brakhage (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Sep 22 2005 - 10:47:58 PDT
Well this is definitely the best summing up I've read yet!
Marilyn
On Thursday, September 22, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Sam Wells wrote:
> OK "some artists" but what does that mean really ?
>
> You can name names here if you want, well it doesn't bother me.
>
> But honestly I keep seeing a non-making point of view asserted as some
> kind of democratic social truth. I see (not from you) artists who
> *have* reception of any significance labeled "fascist" Jeez.
>
> Sometimes, "the act of doing things right" is it's own reward, believe
> it or not. Those who consider this inherently elitist tend to downplay
> the act of *craft*
>
> But craft is what people who "work with their hands" do. It's what
> people who practices *trades* do. Well let them use the service
> entrance I guess.
>
> With all the invocations of Benjamin and post-mod Marxism tossed
> around here like frisbees outside the Madonna Studies Dept on an
> autumn afternoon in the Quad, I see not only significant aspects of
> *work* devalued and converted to "information" which everyone - and I
> admit this - does have some kind of right to.... but is information
> knowledge ? *Something* tells me the pilot of that Airbus A320
> yesterday evening had a little more physiological hands-on than a few
> hours on Microsoft Flight Simulator.
>
> -Sam
>
>
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