This all sounds like the speculations of people who failed to get an education.
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Oh Boy Mailart! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Oh Boy Mailart! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (",) Re: Elephant art?
To: ma-network@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 5:37 AM
In the episode of Six Feet Under where Claire's art teacher,
brought up
the opposed concepts of White Elephant Art and Termite Art,
these ideas belong to Manny Farber, the film critic.
They have to do with pretentious art and progressive art.
White Elephant art destroys its meaning and creativity in pursuit of
seriousness and acclaim, whereas termite art burrows and eats away the
boundaries of its genre as it goes forward, just eating and
regurgitating wood fibers all crazy-style.
