Comments on: Quit Marginalizing Yourself https://www.dailyserving.com/2011/03/quit-marginalizing-yourself/ an international forum for contemporary art Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.13 By: Alec https://www.dailyserving.com/2011/03/quit-marginalizing-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-2539 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:44:44 +0000 http://dailyserving.com/?p=14201#comment-2539 There is a reason Norman Rockwell was so popular. Is that what ‘we’ artists want? Popularism? America, anyway, for some reason, is deeply, deeply anti-intellectual, and deeply, deeply wedded to capital. There is a paradox here maybe. Why does art become devalued just as semblance, shaping one’s body and fashion to fit a trope, etc,. becomes hyper-valued? Or just another trope?

Art’s all snapped up, tied around, made different, right as we watch it happen. But its socio-politically specific. Romantics all, still.

Something that I can’t answer, either: (generally, by which I mean radically specifically speaking) Why can’t artist function in this society, today, without anxiety over utility and value?

Sometimes I can. And its deeply meaningful to me. But a lot of the time?

Seems like the question again is nihilism.

]]> By: Jeffery https://www.dailyserving.com/2011/03/quit-marginalizing-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-2538 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:06:46 +0000 http://dailyserving.com/?p=14201#comment-2538 It is a requirement of humanity to classify and compartmentalize down to the very core of our salacious existences. If it is accepted, that inherent need to assign a meaning and a title and a projection, then surely artists and/or intellectuals function at some of the highest known proficiencies in that artform. This piece, for example, an attempt to decipher the nomenclature.

Are obscurity and marginalization not some of the fondest appeals of art culture?

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