Joyce Owens is a superior artist and blogger. We have been having an on-going dialogue about various issues. Joyce's uppermost concerns have to do with cultural identity issues as an African-American artist, as a woman artist. I have been mulling these things over in my head, and have yet to put anything out dealing directly with her important questions. However, once in a while I respond,http://monroeanderson.typepad.com/joyce_owens_on_art/2008/05/check-out-the-r.html.
This is what I said in response to Joyce's post, Check Out The Really Rich Artists, in which she referred to Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Lucien Freud:
"At some level we are not making art for our contemporaries or the contemporary market. We are hoping to extend ourselves into the future, to defy our mortality. Think of how we feel when we look at images from Lascaux. In some sense we make our objects and are casting them into the wake of the ship of our lives. To make my point succinct, our successors may or may not appreciate Damien Hirst's diamond embedded skull as anything other than a curiosity of our own narcissism, or his. Who will remember Chris Burden's reception of a 22 bullet? Who will want to? There's a historical process that filters. We're hoping to pass through that filter. And always, we artists are engaged in active dialogues with each other and the culture we swim through."
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Nancy: The questions are numerous. You really add a lot of insight, plus your experience that I value. I feel so great that you and other very experienced artists, art dealers, art critics and collectors have taken time to post information that is critical to our success in the art world struggle. Looking forward to your upcoming exhibition and another visit from you to my blog.
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