Agreed.
I think the article is pretty lame overall, maybe due to editing.
Johnson briefly got my interest here:
"A well-kept secret of the mainstream art world is the role that psychedelic drugs have played in shaping and altering the course of art since the 1960s."
But then I start sawing logs:
"Visionary art is not new — see Bosch, Blake, Redon and others — but in Western society before the 1960s, it was the province of isolated individuals. Then LSD became widely available, and anyone could have mystic revelations for the small price of a little pill."
By the end of this next paragraph he might as well be referring to his own article:
"Two recent, disappointingly flawed exhibitions inadequately addressed the subject: “Summer of Love” at the Whitney Museum of American Art last year, and “Ecstasy: In and About Altered States” at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005. For the most part, mainstream discourse about art goes on as if the psychedelic revolution were just a minor, tangential distraction."
Nice to see Grey's stuff featured though.
- steve
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I think the article is pretty lame overall, maybe due to editing.
Johnson briefly got my interest here:
"A well-kept secret of the mainstream art world is the role that psychedelic drugs have played in shaping and altering the course of art since the 1960s."
But then I start sawing logs:
"Visionary art is not new — see Bosch, Blake, Redon and others — but in Western society before the 1960s, it was the province of isolated individuals. Then LSD became widely available, and anyone could have mystic revelations for the small price of a little pill."
By the end of this next paragraph he might as well be referring to his own article:
"Two recent, disappointingly flawed exhibitions inadequately addressed the subject: “Summer of Love” at the Whitney Museum of American Art last year, and “Ecstasy: In and About Altered States” at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005. For the most part, mainstream discourse about art goes on as if the psychedelic revolution were just a minor, tangential distraction."
Nice to see Grey's stuff featured though.
- steve
- Erin Boberg 12-22-2008 4:37 am