From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 10/17/01-11:51:32 AM Z
Shannon,
Academic art has always indulged in fads. Irony seems to be the fad-de-jour,
and college graduate art programs are the Academy of today. A couple
centuries ago only large paintings of heavily populated historical scenes
were acceptable to the Academy, while landscapes were not. Later, landscapes
became acceptable and history painting became old-fashioned and silly.
Saying a video is insufficiently ironic doesn't make much more sense than
saying a sculpture is insufficiently yellow, or that a painting lacks the
proper number of toga-clad ancient Romans. However, as Chris has pointed
out, the fad _will_ be taken seriously within the academy. Until it's
replaced by the next fad.
---Carl
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