December 2009
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“4.3 Refining the dimensions of culture
Sociological writers on culture have...”
– From the HOTEOAAC (Pg. 378-80)
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Artist Dissent and Cultural Compartmentalization...
At CGU there was little buzz about this show or the war in general. My first installation at the college was vehemently anti-war. The response from faculty was negative and critical. The students took their lead from their professors.
The Drucker School is a short walk from the CGU art building. I rarely encountered MBAs attending MFA shows. The rift is palpable, not on an individual basis, only...
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“The economic theory of culture therefore predicts that culture will adapt to the...”
– From the HOTEOAAC (Pg. 378)
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Artist Dissent and Cultural Controls (Example)
Famed sculptor Richard Serra and painter Fernando Botero created powerful artworks in response to the candid snapshots of American atrocities at Abu Ghraib. These artists and others used their social prestige and representational skills to communicate through stylized form and with ancient tools an absolutely current outrage, disgust and demand for reckoning. The art world, though is a befuddling...
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More Conjectures
Creativity and Art
Creativity is not art, but art is creative.
Business and Art
Commercial art is not art. Commercial art means visual design that promotes the sale of a product. Regulation must be stringent (no advertising beyond the package containing the product, for example).
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The Definition of Art (“A Good Place to Start,” or...
Art = Painting + Drawing + Sculpture
Painting teaches the artist how to project imagination to the horizon; how to frame; how the infinite line erases the edge of the canvas and extends beyond and through the frame; how to compress layers of content; how to push and pull content; how to finish; the nature of endurance with care (outlasting life); the dual function (mirror and window); how to...
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NOTES ON REDEFINING AND REGULATING ART
The Two Problems with American Democracy
Private Ownership
Dartmouth v. Woodward
From the Handbook on the Economics of Art and Culture (Pg. 871):
Copyright is therefore intimately tied up with the appropriation of artists’ human capital. Nor is this only a feature of artists’ labour markets; the growth of the ‘Information Society’ or the ‘Knowledge Economy’ and the spread of intellectual...
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DRUCKER: EASTERN V. WESTERN ART
In his comparison of Eastern and Western art (page 6) - which he suggests is abusive to the former – Peter Drucker fails even to mention any American painter by name, except Rothko, whose name appears in a cited book title by the mediocre academic, curator and critic Robert Rosenblum. Drucker’s omission is telling. It reveals Drucker’s prejudice against democratic art.
As for Rosenblum: he was...
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“Uncertainty management techniques and learning processes related to the core of...”
– From the Handbook of the Economics of Arts and Culture (pg. 793-4)
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Drucker & Dimensional Humanities
Peter Drucker’s gift as an analyst lies in his ability to explore a given topic or subject dimensionally. The essay on Japanese art is notable for Drucker’s introduction of two important realms of dimensional study: the perceptual and the conceptual, by way of Reischauer. To begin this section of the paper, I would propose that management-as-a-liberal-art fails to encompass the most...
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Cataclysm & Defining Art
Perhaps the manmade global cataclysms initiated in Europe in the 20th Century were precipitated by the heroism and demonizing Drucker goes on to examine in his book. Or perhaps they were rooted in the madness of European Epistemological rigor, the verticality of its hierarchies and its objective dualism.
I have spent much of the last year investigating Peter Drucker, and exposing the flaws in his...
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Adams V. Drucker
John Adams passionately discusses the Constitutional Convention of 1787:
“To be the Football of Faction, I never was, and never will be. I will neither be Rebel nor Despot: Aristocrate or Democrate and if the Brains of my Countrymen are so far turned, as to insist upon one or the other: I will be a private Man, and a Brewer of Compost for my Farm.”
One wonders if Peter Drucker saw himself as a...
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NOTES [Dualism V. Perception]
One of the functions of art is the development, refinement and clarification of the individual’s perceptual mechanisms, in order to improve his facility and effectiveness as a conceptual agent. Any system of perceptual management, based on achieving results, tailored to a consumer, is in direct contraposition to the aims of democracy. Individuals fluent in arts and science make good democratic...
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Unconditioning
As a nation, it is true that we are struggling for survival. We are struggling to preserve the individual’s freedom to formulate doctrine free of imposed, undemocratic management. Each of us must distinguish between carefully managed and packaged “talking points” and one’s own unconditioned perceptions.
This is true for contemporary Japan, too.
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A Short List of Means for Oppressing Dissent
1. Militarize the constabulary
2. Inhibit travel and communication (through intervention and cost)
3. Spy on the populace
4. Imprison without recourse (e.g., suspension of Habeas Corpus)
5. Torture
6. Obfuscate accountability
7. Mobilize the military to suppress any uprising (e.g., suspension of Posse Comitatus)
8. Control the message
9. Reward...
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Conservatism As Flavoring
Drucker concerned himself with the leadership of organizations. Other economists from the Austrian school, from whom Drucker disassociated himself, focused on ownership, as the foundation for social ecology. This led to some extreme moral vagaries, which nonetheless are indicative of the American democratic experiment.
Disputes between those who wish to pronounce government less credible or...
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“Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we...”
– President Johnson signs P.L. 89-209, the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act, September 29, 1965…
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Limbaugh V. Art
Limbaugh is a cultural icon for the society of organizations that did emerge from Drucker’s success as an ideologue. He is a $50 Million Man. He is charismatic only to his followers, whom he has led to disgrace and despair. To the rest of us, he is a buffoon, a dreadful role model, and a hack for failed economic and political policy. He is the amplified voice of corporate monopoly in global...
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“Our civilization will largely survive in the works of our creation. There is a...”
– The first meeting of the National Council on the Arts convenes at the White House with President Johnson swearing in the members…
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Dimensional Realism and Democracy
Dimensional Realism is a democratic art form.
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Knowledge Worker or Dittohead
In a democracy, each individual is expected to do the necessary thing at the right time, starting with the vote. A collateral damage precipitated by Drucker’s anti-democratic bent is the production not of a nation of knowledge workers, but a nation of followers. Rush Limbaugh calls them “dittoheads.”
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A Tip for Lead Artists
The lead artist should save some work for the closing period of the production, in order to provide a unifying component to the collective presentation, if necessary or appropriate.
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Witnesses
Countless gambits have evolved over centuries of Epistemological critique to divert power from the technical to the E-narrative, the vertical hierarchy: God, obscenity, etc.; or the reactive argument to the vertical hierarchy, which does nothing to dislodge the vertical hierarchy. If all else fails, as it did last century, the critic can try to convince the viewer he is the artist just by looking...
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Dimensional Critique
Critique, responded to correctly, not only improves the work and therefore the production, it increases the confidence of the collective. Critique in dimensional production is an opportunity to expand the discourse, from Epistemological to dimensional.
Critique or review is essential for the quality of the art and production. It will always inadvertently assist the dimensional artist in...
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*NOTATION: Critique, as it relates to art...
Visual art is an oral (invisible) tradition, as well as a visual and visible tradition. This is important to recognize for dimensional study of art. The topology then invites transparency on a variety of concerns, including language or dialect as a determinant of thought-form (and vice versa), thematic arcs, types, memes, kernels, bytes and so on.
[(Please reference the circular collective vision...
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