Our beloved Malraux was a looter himself Luc
----- Original Message ---- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:15:06 PM Subject: RE: Transgenerational and transcultural art [was Heidegger and Historical Art] In the west its better to destroy the people then their artifacts - look at the lovely mess that western imperialism left us with in africa , asia, and the middle east - all places that we looted for their cultural artifacts - you give me one opportunistic example and I'll give 200 years of policy - of cultural genocide often in the name of progress (ours, not theirs) ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | http://www.cia.edu/ The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 ________________________________________ From: Michael Brady [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Transgenerational and transcultural art [was Heidegger and Historical Art] On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote: > but Western civilization seems to be the only one that takes the > religious artifacts and practices of others and turns them into art As opposed to turning them into rubble, as at Bamiyan. Which, btw, is an act that actually acknowledged the persistence of religious importance and vitality in the statues--by having infused them with the power of an idol to be destroyed, rather than an image to be reduced to aesthetic evidence. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected]
