Chaim by the late-1950 was a commercial artist - endless mother and child sculptures - though they might have been out of guilt given his estrangement from his artist daughter Mimi Gross - Chaim by that time was more interested in beating out Jacques Lipschitz - the other Jewish sculptor - than anything else - his African art started as inspiration and then became a room full of trophies ( I worked for Forum Gallery in the 70s and had a lot of contact with him) - you should romanticize, surmise, and guess less - projection onto others is not an egoless activity - the desire to make everyone like ourselves is a defense mechanism - everyone who is different such as myself - you can mark as an enemy - demonize and make less then human - Consequently my problem with anyone who claims they can access the universal, is that their sense of the universal is always sectarian - reductive. As for revolution - it takes place on all fronts - as I pointed out to you it is not driven by economics - this was Stalin's failing - it is instead driven by a belief in that all humans have the right to live a life worth living- and that in a global society like ours in which we can produce more than what is needed, the organization of production based on profit derived from scarcity is inhuman - but then again for jingoist patriots like yourself, who is more concerned with congratulating yourself on how little blood you have on your hands relative to others - while millions die of starvation and poverty world wide because of the system you support - economic equality is not a democratic ideal that a literal minded person like yourself could really appreciate -
But as it did in Germany, and Italy in the 1930s capitalism will use aesthetics to quell the sigh of the oppressed creature, make a heartless world appealing, and deny its soulless condition. It will make aesthetics the opium of the people. ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
