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^S^L^^fi9Sw^Si^5TB Conventi onjemi Unwinding from a week in New Orleans is no simple task, not the kind of thing you can do over a cup or two of |ava. Yet, collecting my thoughts on the 68th annual College Art Association convention in the queen of Southern decadence is something I will prematurely attempt. Perhaps the most striking impression is one of image. Art, or at least the teaching of it, is now a three-vested affair. Gone forever is even the slightest hint of the Bohemian. Gone are the artists that linger over those fatal glasses of beer in passionate debate; gone, in fact, is passion itself. Like everything else, art is business, debate is scholarly papers, passion is reduced to structural pragmatism, and image and hype are the way of the world. C'est la vie - art was one ot the last to join the parade.; The convention is two-fold in purpose: first, to provide a forum for the reading and debate of scholarly research (of which some 50 forums and at least four times as many papers were presented), and secondly, to assist in teaching placement. This year's gathering drew an estimated 5,000 artists and educators, and aside from the ' forums, provided films, gallery openings and informal parties. Critical Issues in Sculnture Today was, without a doubt, the most provocative forum I attended. Lead by sculptor Jeffrey Bayer, prominent critics Jack Burnham, Marsha Tucker and Donald Kupsit gave varying, yet strikingly articulate views on current trends. Burnham, who, we've discussed before in this column (drawing from his book Beyond Modern Sculpture), was interested in clarifying the distinction between novelty and creativity, the former being. simply difference without sub. stance-an issue that not only sculpture, but all of the plastic arts should readdress with a more objective eye. One faction everyone realized, whether they attended their forums or not, were the ever DO YOU MORE O . N REWARDING i Y l 1 FRI I nrupitf pp A r\pg TKA r\Ana?i?n?AM? Vl^..l J i.1 _ I w * u? HIICUI VI nCBlUCnilBI Ll eligible work-study student* for Desl 81 scsdemic year. Any interested Assistant Packet at the following plac Towers Msin Lobb X Russell House Infc \ Any Residence Ha! 1 mmmmmmmmm ^ " J * * . 1 ?: : 7 L ^ .... . ; ,\ ' , ? on harps nist art present feminist artists. Upset with the fact that Louisiana has not ratified the ERA, the feminists contemplated boycotting the convention, but instead opted to bring their dismay to the convention floor. Unfortunately, the dismay was felt not on the floor, but on the screen, by those of us who sat through slide after slide of perfectly awful feminist art. No one can dispute the terrible manner in which society has discriminated and exploited the fairer sex, and the art world MORTAR National Senic Honors APPLICATIONS?Ava Activities Center in 1 ' ai ana ai"k^HviAAi^ " . wHunvwi iuwa?a. ? with 90 hrs. ater\d i DEADLINE FOR ' A Feb. 12,1980 islf"-" \ y . . . write a letter to the editor.. ' i r WANT EXPERIENCE X i 1 E M ENDS T : * \ ' fe Services will soon begin hiring K Assistant positions for the 1980! students may pick up a Desk :es: y Desk ?r mat ion Center / II Peak j (although to a lesser degree) must . also share the guilt. Yet, even the most aggressive social realism has never so completely abandoned the formal concerns of art as the work , displayed by the six feminist ar*lists in Protest and Politics in Feminist Art. I have never seen wqrk that demanded so much explanation/justification, so much clarification of meaning/significance, and yet was still so heavily laced with cliches as to turn the stomach. The only remark that rang true was a quote from one feminist about a statement made by a "sexist" gallery owner: he said, "If women want to get in the galleries, then they should get off the streets and back into the studios." I second the motion. All in all, ACC was somewhat of a mixed blessing; more of a social event than an artistic one, which may have something to do with the selection of the host cities. Next year we meet in San Francicso we'll probably never meet in KiltsDurg. 111 ? " "I ! BOARD I ir Leadership ociety liable at student the Russell House 0 CPR, rising Senior of spring, 1980. 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