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laodan discovered 12 months ago- The plight of the visual artist in late-modernity. by myself in Crucial Talk
Seen from a historical perspective the form taken by visual art appears to have greatly evolved over time while its function has nevertheless remained constant, indeed, along 99.99% of its timespan visual art has been the visual representation of the worldview of the men of knowledge of the day, by the artist, at the attention of his fellow citizens. ... A vision is slowly sinking into my mind; under the urgent necessity of clarifying his own role the artist is slowly weaving the dress he'll be wearing as a kind of shaman for postmodern times. The plight of the visual artist in late-modernity. My search is for a way out of the confusion that came with "whatever is art" and I don't think that the answer lays in the use of brushes or any other tool. We have to re-discover what we are and how to dance this eternal swing of the atoms and their constitutive entity. In other words we have to discover what is reality, out of this cacophony of knowings in late modernity, for it is that reality that we have to illustrate into visual signs...
- The plight of the visual artist in late-modernity. by myself in Crucial Talk
