I enjoyed the historians talk. It was funny and full of rich historical anecdotes. I love that sort of thing. I’d take his talk over Samantha B’s Any day. It was far more scathing.
Yes, me too. But both are needed: perspective and outrage. Egad, tng, there's so much to learn. I'm just reading about how the art critic John Berger won the Booker Prize for literature for a novel in 1972 -- but because the Booker Prize was funded by the Caribbean sugar plantations, Berger donated half the prize money to Britain's Black Panthers. Further, Maybe that's why I have always been indifferent, even a little hostile, about art (and artists, but not mk) Meanwhile, I am -- for real -- planning a trip to Harbor Springs MI via Ann Arbor the week of August 5. But who will be in Michigan in August?Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity. All reality was mechanically measured by its materiality.
Anyone interested in John Berger and his Ways of Seeing, can look here.
Ooh. I will be in Michigan, but maybe in the Keweenaw at that time. If not, I will do my best. Thanks. I feel the same about a lot of art, actually. I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe I feel like art has a direction, either pointing out or in. I don't have much interest when art is clearly pointing out.Maybe that's why I have always been indifferent, even a little hostile, about art (and artists, but not mk)