Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 17:06:48 04/03/03
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On April 03, 2003 at 18:36:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On April 03, 2003 at 17:09:25, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>This is a personal insult and not art. You are confusing the two. Sorry for >>making you upset. But your reaction was wrong when you semi-published a personal >>email and discussed the content with all kind of people. I hadn't expected that >>from you. You had really style in the past. > >How could that possibly have been a personal insult? It was clearly art. > >Two words, one with four letters, one with three, delicately asymmetric. > >The first, containing harsh consonant sounds, Germanic, masculine. > >The second, a whisper, a feminine word, a French word (actually it's not French, >it's middle or old English, but this is art, so it can be French if I, the >artist, *feel* it to be French). > >Together, they are the yin and the yang, the man and the woman, the blitzkrieg >and the surrender. > >So don't tell me it's not art. > >Anyone know how I apply for an NEA grant? > >bruce I said "political" art. Then I shortened to art. As a abstract of political art. Of course on a postcard with the right picture your "art" could also be art, that's right. Then I would have understood. But the two words alone are no art. In Chrilly's case it's clear that the soldiers are soldiers in Iraq and that gives the context for his outcry. I only tried to explain his position and the important thing is that you said that you accepted such opposition against that war. Elsewhere you wrote that nobody spit on ... but nobody did it! Ok in your view allegorically. But that exactly is the aspect of political art. Chrilly is against this war and he wants to show also the following, I just found out another aspect: "Hey Bruce, you are my American friend. If this war goes on we end in the saying *Only a dead American soldier is a good American* - why don't you oppose that war?" Something the like. Did your correspondants also give you that interpretation??? And please tell me why you thought it appropriate to go into public with private emails? Best, Rolf
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