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Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
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Date: 
Tue, 14 Oct 2003 02:44:04 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

The original post I made sort of took as a given (because it was stunningly
obvious to me, anyway) that what she's doing is morally wrong, and was talking
about the fact that NPR didn't even touch on that in its puff piece (review the
subject line, it does try to show what I'm getting at...).

It seemed stunningly obvious to me that in large part you decided that the
artist and NPR were indulging in some sort of anti-corporate crusade in regards
to this particular case, evidence that I simply did not see.  You've repeated
the charge numerous times, but I still don't see the evidence of such.

From http://www.debsandco.com/nagorka.html (one of the links given in the
article):

" Ms. Nagorka's use of Home Depot as off-site site underscores an element of
social critique present in the work: which is more suitable as a matrix within
which to make works of art, the sublime "emptiness" of wilderness or the
relentless "cultivation" of suburban New Jersey? "

Seems obvious enough to me right there, but YMMV.



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  Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
 
For some other perspectives on this: (URL) Clean up Sculpture on Aisle 9!> (these include people who purport to work for HD, and people who purport to be the gallery owner I cited in my last post, and a bunch of other voices) This has been an (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
 
(...) I don't care enough to research the full breadth of Ms. Nagorka's work (which I likewise find disappointingly pedestrian), but the passage you cite strikes me as a critique by Debs & Co. rather than a formal declaration of intent by the (...) (21 years ago, 14-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
 
(...) It seemed stunningly obvious to me that in large part you decided that the artist and NPR were indulging in some sort of anti-corporate crusade in regards to this particular case, evidence that I simply did not see. You've repeated the charge (...) (21 years ago, 13-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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