Now I certainly received enough posts from poetryetc, but for some
reason I did not receive Mark's first one, so only had Hal's response
to go by. Was there a longer essay, or are you referring to the
exchanges here, Alison?
I take his point that some damage is always done, but it's interesting
that they do try to recycle everything, to leave the 'subject's of
their wrapping etc as they were once the deliberately ephemeral 'art'
has been taken down, & pay for it themselves out the what they make
from the sales of Christo's drawings and paintings of the proposed
works. So it seems to me they take as much care as possible, & partly
want to call attention to the equally ephemeral quality of the world
itself....
Doug
On 1-Mar-05, at 11:51 AM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Mark, what an interesting essaying. I've read about the Gates, wished
> I
> could see them, etc, but this is the first thing I've read that really
> gave
> me a feeling of it it might be like to be there. Though of course I
> wouldn't experience the emotional resonances that a New Yorker would.
>
> Interesting point too on the destructiveness of the Christos' art.
> All of
> it is about marking the planet (not always natural phenomena, of
> course,
> didn't they wrap the Reichstag? Or did I imagine that?) in these
> grandiose
> and absurd ways and so, I suppose, terribly human. I remember once
> seeing
> on television an aerial view of some new roads winding over previously
> fairly inaccessible mountains in France, and was struck by how it
> looked
> like the planet had a bad case of worms. An alien looking from a
> space ship
> might think Earth had been infested by some malignant organism. You're
> right
> I think to point to the costs - not the money, but destructiveness:
> but how
> much are those costs promoted as part of the artwork? Not much, by the
> sound of things.
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
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>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
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care to be more
precise about whatever
it is you are
saying, I said
Bill Manhire
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