[-empyre-] poets patrons and the word academic

[G.H. Hovagimyan]

gh comments below:

On Jan 2, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Johanna Drucker wrote:

> Artists should make what they want. But when we get to the critical
> discussion of the cultural role and function of aesthetic objects, the
> claims for the work often come out of a need for critical discourse to
> find suitable objects rather than out of an engagement with the work.


gh comments:
That's been the problem with most recent art criticism. The writers  
try to find other critical thought that illuminates the art.   That's  
been a good strategy in the past put has recently begun to obscure the  
actual meaning of any artwork behind a veil of theory.  I love your  
description of Anish Kappoors work. It does indeed take a poet to get  
to the meaning of art!

G.H. Hovagimyan
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