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Unwinding from a week in New
Orleans is no simple task, not the
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thoughts on the ^^in^ii^Uege^
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, anu linage anu nype
are the way of the world. C'est la
vie - art was one oC 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
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Critical Issues in Sculpture
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
intprAstoH in f?larifuint> tho
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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.
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whether they attended their
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present feminist artists. Upset :
with the fact that Louisiana has not
ratified the ERA, the feminists l
contemplated toycotUiyfoj4be
convention, but Instead opted to
bring their dismay to the convention
floor. Unfortunately, the
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but on the screen, by those of us
who sat through slide after slide of
perfectly awful feminist art.
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manner in which society has
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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 artists
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Feminist Art. I have never seen
wqfk that demanded so much
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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
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year we meet in San Francicso we'll
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