Anodyne
Monday, August 28, 2006
 
ART (Aesthetically Rejected Thing): Art Jargon

I think this may be the silliest and most poorly conceptualized paragraph of art writing I have ever read. Received wisdom city, baby! (Eccentric punctuation and capitalization preserved unchanged from the original).

"Since at least the Renaissance, Western civilization, its History and Culture have been promulgated and imposed from a single-point perspective, from the point of view, the privileged position, of the enfranchised European heterosexual white male. The global technologies of our era, which are the outcome of this single-point perspective, have been reductive, totalizing and oppressive, if only because they inscribe universalized versions of humanity, institutions, and power relationships within a relentlessly material and singular and seamlessly teleologic History."

Annette Hurtig, "Eyes of the Beholder," Jerry Pethick: Material Space (Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1992)
- posted by cjb @ 7:03 PM


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