Hal: If you want to get to know them or their lawyers I'd suggest you
convince a very visible journal to publish your pictures without their
permission.
Mark
At 03:14 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
>{ -----Original Message-----
>{ From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>{ poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
>{ Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:10 PM
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>{ Subject: Re: Christo
>{
>{
>{ Every work of art is an act of violation.
>{ It is a legitimate act if it liberates something else.
>{ (This is not to be confused with George Bush whose liberation rhetoric is
>{ oppression in disguise).
>{ It is a mistake to confuse the priests with the message. They just be
>{ ordinary people with "transmission rights". As ordinary they can be
>{ frequently vain and variously opportunistic - confusing the gold on the
>{ garment with what in the spirit is being transformed.
>{ The Christos often can suffer from what priests suffer. I worked with
>them
>{ closely on a book related to The Umbrellas. I have known them as entirely
>{ generous to many. I believe the fundamental spirit of the work is
>public and
>{ generous. Mark's celebration of Central Park in summer as a community
>{ celebration is no doubt true. But, I suspect, different in kind from The
>{ Gates. Mark is quite right, I think, in pointing out how The Gates give
>{ rebirth and a public acknowledgment to the original genius of the Park's
>{ plan by Olmstead and Vaux. Now that the Gates are down, they will have a
>{ shadow, haunting effect (a spell) on the public imagination of the
>Park and
>{ its memory of where the Gates were and what they do to refresh the
>presence
>{ of the Park as time moves on.
>{ The complaint about costs reminds me of someone who has just taken an
>
>{ the Christos control every word that is written about the project(s),
>{ as well as the reproduction rights on any of his art.
>
>Hmmm, well, they may have vetted what Mark and you have written, but
>not what I have--they haven't even vetted the Polaroids that Lynda and I
>took, or even asked for copies.
>
>Hal
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