Re: Defining "post-modernism" -- WAS--- First define "post-modern"photography, dammit

[jfulton <jfulton@sfai.edu>]

I did not say the man was not financial savvy. Noooo way. There is a  
facet of the above artist's works that is appealing to the degree  
that one seeing
the comeuppance of a bully is pleasing, and I'm not saying these boys  
are bullies more than the art-world is. The ploy they've played as a  
plot
of perfidious perfection panning prurience is good if not excellent.  
Like many a thing, it's easier to put down than applaud with  
conviction. Oh, Velazquez or Goya did put down things nicely but  
pointed out within the works the why of it and did not wish to pass  
it off as smug knowledge.
It is, indeed, perhaps unfair to compare artists some 350 years apart  
but I do like passion an awful lot.


On November2007, at 8:11 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, jfulton wrote:
> > greed and excess. Perhaps some of the art which I really despise such
> > as Richard Prince and Jeff Koons, does point out just how dumb we  
> > are and art collectors agree: we are dumb, so they buy it.
>
> Jeff Koons' art may be dumb as a post, but he knows a bargain. He  
> bought the Courbet at auction a million or so $$$ below estimate..
>
> (Actually I forget the precise figure, but it was a bargain.)
>
> J.