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   [Date]: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 09:28:31 -0600
   [From]: "Chris Drew" <cdrew#@orion.it.luc.edu>
     [To]: "Cultural Exchange via Internet" <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: discussion about sensation - art & politics

In my humble opinion - every word you speak is political. Every act you make
is political. It is the act of a censor who claims political thought has no
or little place in art. It is a statement of a person divorced from reality
and self to claim politics has no place in art in a democracy. Man/woman is
a political creation because we communicate our wants, desires and
aspirations. Art expresses the self. If a person has a political self in a
democracy then politics is a part of art by default and by duty. Your very
statement is so loaded with political content that it is a refutation of
your intended message. It says to me "Do not rock the boat or Ivory Tower
critics will call your art bad and your career will suffer." To say a
political statement makes all art bad is to say that any art for all time
that has a political point relavant to its time is bad. This is so
laughable. You condemn art which you have never seen - and can not imagine.
Is it not Guilani who would agree with you most in style and substance. Your
education should be examined in my humble opinion.



-----Original Message-----
From: Ami Isseroff <ami_iss@netvision.net.il>
Date: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 5:20 AM
Subject: [forum1] Re: discussion about sensation

IMHO It is as bad for you to judge art on a political basis as it is
for may Giuliani to do so.

IMHO If you mix politics and art you get art that is filthy and mediocre
like most politicians and politics that are simple-minded and 2 dimensional, like most art.
Ami