I am not interested in art history, in the academies of styles, a succession of fads. Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up. This remark is made to the whole academy of artists who have attempted to derive the art of the late 1980’s, to try to relate it to the study of the history of art. It has to do with appropriation. It has to do with the attempt to prove that you can do better than the next one, and that a famous art history teacher is better than the common artist. If you are a historian, you have to have the dignity of a historian. You don’t have to prove that you are better than the artist - Louise Bourgeois.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:57:30 +0000
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