Date: 24 Aug 1995 13:47:12 -0500
Subject: RE: Serbian avantgarde 


>So, it would be helpful to elaborate on the specific links 
>between lava lamps and swatiskas, translate that odd duo of 
>retro-minded examples into today's nasty hip dialectic of the 
>arts-as-propaganda agenda.

I think I am being misunderstood in my posts; due no doubt to thoughtless hack
writing on my part.  I am not at all trying to "misbehave for notoriety".  If 
anything, perhaps I am too cynical about the innocence of what is considered
kitsch in America.

But to avoid dragging myself into a debate my heart really isn't in, let me
restate my original question.  Namely, are there any artists in Eastern
Europe/the former Soviet Union that play with the idea of "kitsch as art."  If
there are, who?  What sort of images do they appropriate? 



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