Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:40:51 EST |
Content-Type: | text/plain |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Once again can't resist playing devils advocate.
What ever happened to the joyful and liberating sense that one of the
functions of art in our time is to transgress rules? That was a
motivating force behind many of the pieces of art now accepted as
modern masterpieces (and I do mean "a" motivating force, not
necessarily "the" motivating force.)
Are property rules, written into law, so qualititatively different
that violating them (in a pretty modest way) makes graffitti
intrinsically beyond the pale? Has everyone lost all of their taste
for a touch of anarchy?
And I live and work in NYC, and took the subway every day for many
years, and I got tired of grafitti in general, particularly the black
scrawls. I always kind of liked the big puffy lettered signs, though
I must admit a sense of relief when the fashion passed.
We grow old, we grow old, we shall wear the...etc etc.
Eric Siegel
[log in to unmask]
|
|
|