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[Eduardo Navas]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Watson" <michaelw at eleanorrigby.net
> "When I consider the things that were sold to us - hungry junkies
> of the art world ready to be fixed for the day - in the name of
> Conceptual Art I can't help but let out a cry of withdrawal."
>                                    -- Behrang Samadzadegan
>
> http://www.tehranavenue.com/ws_galleria_conceptual.htm
>
> Your modem is fucked up!
> http://www.tehranavenue.com/ec_feature_dialup.htm

Not sure why there is angst against conceptual art (not really an issue with
me) but I think the following text is a good contrast to the above premise:

"When a man howls or shouts or threatens, we other animals understand him
very well! Then his attention is not in that other world!  But he barks in a
way all his own -- he speaks.  And this has enabled him to invent what does
not exist and to overlook what exists.  As soon as he gives a thing a name
that he ceases to see the thing itself; he only hears the name that he gave
it or sees it written... For him, everything in the world is merely a
pretext for talking to other men or for talking to himself."

-- Funeral oration, by Orfeo the dog on Augusto the man, in Miguel de
Unamuno's Novel MIST.
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A priori is inescapable, especially when we search for the sublime.

Best,

Eduardo Navas