The power of un-creation
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ARCH : the Asian magazine of architecture, design and visual communications, v.2, no.3, 1989, pp. 114-120
Abstract
The creative process has finally metamorphosed into a deliberately un-creative one. That which was either craft or mystique in the artist, and his working processes, has been cast aside, discarded as garbage. And in has come garbage itself as a legitimate art form, as a kind of supercilious and temporary comment on our times. All the artist has to do is select two or three items and juxtapose them in amusing fashion - soon enough the new art can return to its original state: junk. The only "higher" art form now is that of the supermarket shelf or the television screen. So charmingly insidious are the repetitive images these possess, our artists merely copy the process. Twelve images are better than one. But are they better than none? The enigma of modern creation.
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1989
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en