Doug,
He's indeed the author of The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty but also Professor
of Art Theory and Criticism at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Early on he had a
gallery in Austin Texas. Someone in the audience termed this lecture a screed, but
having read essays by him as well as having heard other lectures, I wasn't really
surprised by "The Evils of Creationism: Art History According to Darwin". Though
Hickey's "performing blood" was an unusual touch.
Barry
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:27:58 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>I like the piece, Barry, but did not know Hickey: the art critic? In
>favour of beauty? SOunds interesting, but an idiosyncratic version
>thereof? Wiki says he is anti-academic...?
>
>Doug
>On 3-Feb-10, at 7:00 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>> Stephen,
>>
>> I'm glad you enjoyed what I caught at the Smithsonian American Art
>> Museum. Perhaps
>> I'll be able to finish the acrostic I drafted on the same occasion.
>> Hickey was quite
>> literally bleeding and really "worked" the stigmata. Listening to
>> him, one might have
>> thought the wound(s) were inflicted by a cabal of Wash DC art
>> administrators.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:51:12 -0800, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Good snatch(snack) of 'the catch', Barry. Hickey, I like him; he
>>> can be - slicing and
>> dicing - disturbingly good.
>>>
>>> Stephen Vincent
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:13:43 +0000, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>TALK DAVE HICKEY
>
>
>Violate the canons of the culture.
>I won’t want you to go home & tell your friends
>he was bleeding.
>I’m a stone (sharon) . . . I made that up.
>
>Works of art in their idiosyncrasy & outrageousness,
>pioneered by people with a taste for disorientation . . .
>They hate it! I want it!
>Seeking out anxiety is a very un-American thing to do.
>
>Then I had to go to a formal occasion.
>If a church doesn’t teach ethics, it might as well be Toys R Us.
>I was a little bit long--I got discouraged--I was bleeding.
>
>We moved from incredibly ugly to incredibly silly.
>I don’t think that what lives on the street is the best,
>but it’s the strongest.
>
>
>Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 2-3-10 (6:13 PM)
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