Posted by Perfume on November 08, 1996 at 02:04:43:
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In Reply to: Re: MEME BREEDERS posted by JK on October 14, 1996 at 23:31:47:
: The artist is at a serious disadvantage when it come to breeding memes. Just think of the GoldenArches or Mickey Mouse or Michael Jackson or the Coke or Nike logos and slogans and you will see that the artist simply cannot compete, doesn't have the resources to go up against those breeders. Maybe on a more subversive, subliminal level...the level of artistic activity, but then, can it be done intentionally and effectively? Warhol was very good at holding the mirror up to reveal the culture's memes... hasn't there been enough revelation of what goes about in the previous generation? and isn't the contemporary artist's function closer to his work becoming the meme, that is the mirror itself, than in the reveiling of it?
you tell me
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