When did we lose the willingness to call BS BS? The person in that interview is lost to himself and to engagiert writers everywhere. Whitworth is correct, though I would choose drawing and quartering. That Cage, DuChamps and other "fartistes" of their ilk make their all too predictable appearances in coffee table art history books merely makes it unmistakably clear how imprisoned by foppish fads the publishers of coffee table art books are. DuChamps is no role model. O'Connor, Dickinson, Dante, Lorca, Mandelstam, Brecht--those are role models. Blood and bones on the line. Or are we just cowards?
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