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...could it be? That would be too much to ask of art. And some of the best art made in America has been completely silent about its social context--although there are times when silence itself can be read as a significant act of sublimation. There's very little visual art, for instance, that directly deals with slavery. Or, to take another example, here is a country founded on religious impulses--Puritanism in the Northeast, Spanish Catholic missions in the Southwest--which nevertheless has hardly produced any major doctrinally religious work...
...story is a long, rich and complicated one because American culture is older than people tend to think. Americans love to invoke the idea of American newness, but neither the place nor its visual culture is new: Boston is older than St. Petersburg...
...Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler's List established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which records the testimony of Holocaust survivors. In April its first film won a Peabody Award...
...generation of critics, do you think that in any way undermines the art historical method that you and people like Yve-Alian Bois have pioneered? To me, you way of working is so useful in the sense that it is about really analyzing an object and applying very precise visual tools to unpack it and discover how it signifies. And in that sense, this methodology would seem somehow completely impervious to generational differences...
...have to have a beauty contest here and say which method is to be privileged in relationship to Coleman, but I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that I believe something very essential and specific to Coleman's work was to be gotten by talking about the visual medium...