Picasso was right, of course. And Duchamp simply excluded the 'showing' part and claimed it was art if he said so. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, September 24, 2012 7:28:43 PM Subject: 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 On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:48 PM, William Conger <[email protected]> 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. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
