Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 17:35:18 -0500
Subject: Re: appropriation/self expression


>Matthew Bennett wrote:
>
>I think there are compelling links here between conceptions of "self" and
>political economy, and that the latter effects/reflects basic
>ontology--which is bound with art, but maybe not prior to it.  Maybe art
>creates ontology...

The notion in the west at least , in terms of 'modern' was to make the
shift from a maker based art involved in ontological self-reflection to a
viewer based art that provoked epistomological  reflexivity.  This is after
all is a residual aspect of an Enlightenment ideology that would dismantle
metaphysics and in turn produce a self conscious subject.




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