well, that counts out all the poets
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From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: strictures
bj omanson wrote:
> FP wrote: "You can use anything you want -
> abstraction, even cliche - as long as it is somehow
> recontextualized, revitalized."
>
> I agree completely. And isn't that, in a nutshell, the definition of
> post-modernism? Such is the case in the visual arts. Out with the long
> list of reductive verbotens; to hell with the strictures, fling open the
> gates that Modernism so systematically welded shut. All that matters is
> whether it works, whether it breathes
...whether it generates profit...
Dominic
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