Probably yes. But his last conference @ Whitney Biennal (end of the eighties) where he dismissed the pending of positive words to renew the concepts of contemporary arts was exactly that proposition from which they began to hate him for a long in NY. So it is exactly from where he wrote "Conspiracy of Art" in the nineties as ironical performance of these matters into truth of essay...
http://www.liberation.fr/tribune/0101179372-le-complot-de-l-art (1996) On 6 August 2011 18:30, Simon Biggs <[email protected]> wrote: > Jean has hit the nail on the head with that one. I think he could go further > and propose that the art market abolishes art, at least within the domain > that is the art world, which now equates to the art market. > > best > > Simon > > > On 6 Aug 2011, at 16:40, Julian Oliver wrote: > >> "Behind this mechanical snobbery, there is in fact an escalation of the power >> of the object, the sign, the image, the simulacrum and value of which the >> best >> example today is the art market itself. This goes well beyond the alienation >> of >> price as a real measure of things: we are experiencing a fetishism of value >> toat explodes the very notion of a market and, at the same time, abolishes >> the >> artwork as work of art." >> >> Conspiracy of Art, p44, Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series, 2005. > > > Simon Biggs | [email protected] | www.littlepig.org.uk > > [email protected] | Edinburgh College of Art | University of Edinburgh > www.eca.ac.uk/circle | www.elmcip.net | www.movingtargets.co.uk > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > -- ----- ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
