November 2007
3 posts
Baudrillard, Penis Dreams, and the Self-Portrait
i just had a dream about modern and postmodern art. i was explaining how some fictional artist bridged the gap btwn the two. he was a he and he was a painter. all I remember is his name may have been hispanic, or mexican-american, or latin, or whatever the fad is for ppl to call it these days (wherever the power is i suppose) either way i wasn’t saying anything new in this weird setup of...
The Presumption of the Political Artist v2.1
In response to the public panel discussion Materiality to Hyperreality: Appropriated Media in Contemporary Art held at the University of Houston’s M.D. Anderson Library sponsored by the Visual Studies program early 2007. If accepting the mass media as both a negative and as a purveyor of the supposed war agenda, or ideology of the right, then it’s safe to assume, in accordance with the...
The Presumption of the Political Artist v1.1
Regarding the decade of the 1980s: pre·sume 1.to take for granted, assume, or suppose: I presume you’re tired after your drive. “To begin with, there’s a hegemony of the tepid left in the art world. When you say ‘political art’ … it’s assumed you’re talking about anti-Reagan, pro-Sandinista, pro-freeze, anti-domestic-budge-cut art.”...