I wonder why you don't consider Jasper Johns a contemporary artist. Where, exactly, is the dividing line between, say. modern, and contemporary? Johns is still making work and we may presume he is still confronting relevant issues. Is a contemporary artist one whose work is not yet widely influential?
WC --- On Sat, 9/13/08, kathleen desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: kathleen desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: It's Hirst and Dickinson > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 1:33 PM > I couldn't help notice the inaccurate spelling of the > names Damien > Hirst and Emily Dickinson, the inaccuracy of calling Jasper > Johns a > contemporary artist, and the lack of context in using these > artists > for comparison. > > > >To join William in reading between the lines of the > Sendak interview -- we > >might notice that the names he places into the iconic > artist club are all > >writers or composers. (Mozart, Melville, Dickenson etc) > > > >I.e. -- Sendak is not giving ground to any visual > artists -- and I suspect > >that he feels (as I do) that his memorable, poignant, > narrative vision is a > >greater achievement than the work of contemporary > iconic visual artists like > >Jasper Johns and Chuck Close. (and way-way-way greater > than the billionaire > >joke artists like Damien Hurst) > > > >Either way -- only the obsessive mind of Cheerskep > would find him nourishing > >the Platonic forms of "illustrator" or > "artist". > > > >____________________________________________________________ > >Internet Security Software - Click here. > >http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijlZS7BfiQLJLajaGccEyrj8k > >HknQUt26DVcpx55Z0SnXzXCU/ > > > -- > Dr. Kathleen Desmond > Professor of Art History > Byler Distinguished Faculty > University of Central Missouri > Warrensburg, MO 64093 U.S.A. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 660-543-4620 > http://faculty.ucmo.edu/desmond/
