Once again Miller's triumphal comments, like the one below, have no veracity except to himself, the giveaway trait of the solipsist. In various eras, art was made to remain opaque to all but a few insiders who enjoyed puzzling over content and references, the iconology and the iconography. This was particularly true in the late Baroque-Roccoco-and early neo-classic period. As always, people love, then as now, being insiders and knowledge of the most esoteric references and symbols in art is often the signal of membership. In fact, this is what disturbs me about much of today's art with its overdone abundance of insider reference to esoteric, obscure, vague "discourse" that can be easily alluded to in general terms but never explicitly identified. If anything modernism has become stuck in a late neo-baroque redux.
Miller has so much homework to do. To repeat the words of Harold Rosenberg, uttered at a lecture in 1965 or 66, "You can start anywhere". T.J. Clark's Farwell To An Idea, might be a good place to dive in. WC Puzzling is a feature of our contemporary artworld, which is quite distant from Heidegger's native sphere. ____________________________________________________________ Click here to find the right business program for you and take your career to the next level. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxP25fVP2fUNjcJFbhzO5e5Ey kHMNRnmiNm02J0M67g28B0nRslnNG/
