Subj: [thingist] desperate rear-guard action
Date: 7/28/2002 12:41:14 PM Central Daylight Time
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Dear List,

Bobbi's losing it… big time. re:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/21/arts/design/21SMIT.html?pagewanted=prin=
t&
position=top

> Painting remains the expression of an exceedingly human need for mark
> making — a basic urge to communicate like speech, writing and son=
g. If
> this weren't the case, the century would not have had so many
> self-taught painters, some of them geniuses. Paintings can have the
> expressive density of written pages, and new ones are being made all
> the time that make exceptionally good reading.

This is complete & total rubbish. Speech is "basic", artifice is
"basic", writing is not, singing is not (tho chanting may be), &
mark-making was a thing given to one in a hundred (even now, despite the
transient ubiquity of Photoshop & al) – this since neolithic times; the
province of the shaman. The rest of her argument is specious to the
point of teleological absurdity.

& once again, elsewhere in the article, she demonstrates her
pathological inability to perceive work framed by the monitor. Her
catch-all for everything which isn't painting seems to be "video" which
she characterizes as "the successor to installation".

Roberta, please… the rocking chair beckons.

best,

Blackhawk.

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