Off the subject at hand, i'd like to insert that both Gross and
Lipschitz were
big part of sculptors that had a great Visual influence on me. Had i
not seen
their work , my sculpture would have taken a different turn.
mando
.
On May 3, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
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.
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