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   [Date]: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:27:08 -0800
   [From]: Susan Marquez <smarq@pacbell.net>
     [To]: Cultural Exchange via Internet <forum1@hkw.kbx.de>
[Subject]: Re: [forum1] Re: Censorship

Juan,

Thank you for continuing the censorship discussion. It seems as though your definition of political art is rather narrow, however. Plenty of artists today do excellent political art without coopting themselves to the interests of a power elite with governing power. Conrad Atkinson, Lin Evola, and even the British artist Rachel Whiteread who is showing with the young British Sensation artists in several shows, including Brooklyn, are doing excellent and compelling political art.

Oblique commentary abounds in art from ancient times to the present, though I have already written in to the Forum about this topic. A clear example can be found in the work of the Socialist Realism photographers.

One thing you mentioned was this:

Does an artist need to be in a museum to be an artist?

In my view the answer is no. But I want to ask you this?

Does an artist need to toil away in obscurity only to die unnoticed and unrecognized?

Thank you,

Susan