>But hey, who doesn't like Monty Python? >Bob
Thanks, Bob, I'm glad to provide a little entertainment and I humbly bow to anyone else in the audience who hasn't already pegged me with a tomato. And apologies out to Bob and Rob for misreading "Rob" where I should have read "Bob" on that particular "truth" bit. I've loaded a glove with a brick and slapped myself silly for all of you. Actually, I don't know why I didn't think of it before but this whole thing reminds me of the criticism of Hans Haacke for his Shapolsky Project in the 80s. Actually, folks are still debating it. I'm guessing that there would be a similar break down of interpretations from folks on the list as there were to Haacke's piece from critics in the 80's. I'd like to read thoughts... or maybe not? here's a relevant paragraph from http://www.ccca.ca/c/writing/h/hassan/hass002t.html "Leo Steinberg's text is not only an elaborate demonstration of an obvious failure to recognize the integrity of social / political art, but contains a perverse attack against Haacke. When reviewing the Real-Time Social Systems, he wonders why Haacke had to choose Shapolsky to illustrate a real estate network in New York City slums. He questions, 'Did this exposé of a stereotypical Jewish landlord express the old gut reaction that resents a non-Aryan presence among holders of wealth or was this the updated anti-Semitism of the New Left?', and writes from a completely cynical position when he flatly declares that, 'The artist knows perfectly well that Mobil will not be induced to retreat from its South African market.' This is totally unlike Deutsche who locates the concepts of specificity and explains why Haacke selected the Shapolsky group as the subject for his work: in 1971 they held the largest concentration of properties in the Lower East Side and Harlem of any group owner. Thus Haacke's reasons were economic rather than racial. Deutsche' s insightful text articulately probes the temporal and relative nature of meaning within works of art to affirm the potential 'education and transformation of the viewer' that further the implications of Haacke's work."
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