That's an interesting issue, Patrick. Not far from where I live is a fence
that the council permitted to be graffiti-ed about 10 years ago. I remember
talking to one of the artists, who did in fact have a day-job as a web
designer if I remember rightly.
Being permitted somehow undermined the point, but on the other hand the
transitory aspect, where one week's graffiti overwrote the previous week's,
was still there, and the visual standard was rather higher than what will no
doubt be sprayed on the wall a couple of doors down from me, since it was
just re-painted today. (Discouraging dark green, as it probably said on the
tin.)
The tagging thing, I think, connects with the way writing was used in the
classical Hellenic period to mark and to warn.
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Patrick Mc Manus
> Sent: 10 April 2007 18:33
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Ian Hamilton Finlay piece in today's Guardian
>
> Peter thanks inetersting ref there!!
> Wondering about the relation to grafitti-which my council spends a
> forune on
> instead (in my opinion!!)embracing it
> Cheers P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> Behalf Of Peter Cudmore
> Sent: 10 April 2007 16:38
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Ian Hamilton Finlay piece in today's Guardian
>
> There's a nice piece on the avant-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay today at
> <http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2053444,00.html>
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>
>
> "Ian Hamilton Finlay was an incredibly provocative thinker who played
> on the
> opposite poles of conservatism and revolution, authority and dissent",
> it
> says. There's another incredibly over-used word.
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>
> P
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