the Butler did it (was cheap computers)

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Sat Jan 2 06:21:45 PST 1999


In message <199901020636.XAA16233 at smtp02.primenet.com>, Doyle Saylor <djsaylor at primenet.com> writes


> Doyle
> As to aesthetic theory, have you ever read Rosalind Krauss (The
> Optical Unconscious, MIT Press 1994)?  She is a former associate of
> Clement Greenberg, when Krauss was a grad student, and who did a
> little work for him as a trusted aide.  Greenberg was the art
> critic of the Nation Magazine.  Anyway, Krauss wrote this POMO book
> on Greenberg and art theory.  It is the first book I encountered on
> POMO theory.  I guess about four years ago is when I saw it.  I
> find Krauss interesting though difficult at times.

I remember reading that Greenberg, a one-time Trotskyist, was, like many proponents of the abstract expressionist movement sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, in its ongoing struggle against 'soviet- inspired' socialist realism. One of the more curious chapters in the history of the Cold War.

-- Jim heartfield



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