But what would a non-realistic art or art practice be? Unless the word is used in the sense of - something that can't be carried out - i.e. it's unrealistic to create an artwork from a single quark visible from outer space and colored blue?
- Alan On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Rob Myers wrote: > On 10/13/2010 04:22 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote: >> >> I think in the usual sense of the word, authenticity is more than >> problematic - it's suspect. > > How about "realistic"? > > Realistic artistic practice (process), realistic art (product). > > Realism is the absence of sentiment. It's a kind of efficiency (to > ironise a neoliberal shibboleth ;-) ). > > Producing something realistic in the unreality of neoliberalism (it's > markets all the way down...) can be approached in various ways. > > The successful results will be authentic in a non-suspect sense by > virtue of their realism. Which I would make less tautological if I had > more time. ;-) > > - Rob. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
