Radiacant Questions
“ The ideologues of state communism had read Marx through the lens of Hegel-that is, following a line of reasoning that preexisted Marx's work but was incompatible with its true nature, a line of reasoning, according to Althusser, that didn't work- Something like a diesel car that one insisted on filling with super.” pg 144
In order to understand and reason with this statement do we need to read Hegel and Marx?
“ The use of existing forms is not a particularly novel practice. Indeed, haven't all great artists copied, interpreted, and recycled masters of the past?” pg 145
Are artists merely illustrators?
“ On numerous occasions-notably on the subject of his performance The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overestimated (1964) the German artist makes fun of the bourgeois side of Duchamp, which according to Beuys was made manifest by the fact that Duchamp dared to put an individual signature on a urinal (Fountain, 1917), that is, on an object collectively produced by real workers in real kaolin mines. Beuys implies that the signature expropriates the labor of these workers, thus reproducing the mechanism of capitalism, the social division between wage earners and owners of the means of production. Duchamp as small time boss?”
What of the designer of the urinal?
Do we obediently appreciate a cultural imperative? Pg 149
pg 150 “The idea of citing without quotation marks, without stating the source, and with the aim of deliberately transforming it, in short, the idea that one would radically distort it, this was too much for him.”
Helene Hegemann
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html
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