Re: "The creation of Aboriginal art for an international market is poignantly paradigmatic of the modernist commodification of (fine) art in a very specific sense: as the abstraction and extraction--the reification--of particular visual or optical proper

[Michael Brady]

On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:48 PM, William Conger <w-con...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> That is an OK example of International Art English.  What it says in
everyday
> speech is that Aboriginal art looks like some modernist abstraction and can
be
> appreciated as such, aside from whatever symbolic function it had for it
makers.
> Fits my universal rule: Everything looks like something else.

Picasso said of African masks that they weren't art until they were taken to
Paris and shown there.



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Michael Brady