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Artistic Differences: In Search of a Negation

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The three negative identities most explicitly associated with art/culture: philistinism, vandalism and iconoclasm, are examined in this chapter. Surveying each of these negative identities in turn it is demonstrated how partial they are when it comes to a renunciation of art/culture. This partial nature certainly has something to do with the aforementioned ambiguity of ‘art’ and ‘culture’; with philistinism focused solely on the perceived elite asceticism of ‘high art’, vandalism on ‘art’ as property and iconoclasm on ‘art’ as blasphemous idol. But more telling is how even the most explicit ‘anti-art’ position cannot bring itself to fully excoriate what it is supposed to target. Indeed many of these negations turn out to be attacks on ‘false art’ and celebrations of ‘true art’.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Perhaps he reconciled this contradiction the same way Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1978, 544–5) did, by blaming his passions for leading him to involvement in the fine arts after he had already condemned them. In his Discourse on Arts and Science Rousseau attacks the moral danger that the fine arts lead people into, predating Laing’s own moral panic by nearly a century (ibid., 553n3). However Laing’s philistinism was a celebration of bourgeois progress while Rousseau’s critique was a jeremiad against progress, the ‘arts and sciences’ lumped together as the combined corruption of civilisation. It is worth noting that Rousseau’s critique went on to influence Romanticism , indeed there is a lot of resonance in William Wordsworth’s (in Shiner 2001, 234) famous lines from The Tables Turned: ‘We murder to dissect/Enough of Science and of Art/Close up those barren leaves.’ Like Rousseau, Wordsworth himself could not be said to have resisted the lures of fine art and, in fact, Shiner (2001, 234) surmises that, ‘in calling Art barren, he may have been aiming at the artificial diction of established poetic language’. In any case the fine arts would become the allies rather than enemies of the critique of Enlightenment reason after the Romantics inherited it from Rousseau.

  2. 2.

    Once again we have an echo of Rousseau (1978, 547): ‘The taste for arts and letters and for philosophy can then only annihilate in us the love of basic duty and true glory.’ This demonstrates clearly the lineage the anti-Enlightenment critique, which would become the Romantic movement , had with Nazism.

  3. 3.

    Since this was written the Trump Presidency has seen a more Laingian position being taken, with a threat to end the NEA entirely (Deb 2017). Whether such a cut goes ahead, without a replacement for any federal patronage, not to mention wasteful tax credits for corporate donations, is to be seen.

  4. 4.

    This is quite a common move, which will be seen more and more in this and the following chapter, whereby anything positive associated with art/culture is deemed to be intrinsic to art/culture and anything negative (particularly the stultifying elitist aura) is blamed on extrinsic aesthetic theories. For just a few examples see David Carroll’s (1987, xiv) notion of ‘paraesthetics’, Stuart Sim’s (1992) Beyond Aesthetics, and Hal Foster’s (1983) edited collection The Anti-Aesthetic. The upshot, as will be seen, is that a lot of supposedly iconoclast, philistine or vandalising attacks on art/culture turn out to be rather limited, and not particularly controversial, critiques of a strawman of ‘aesthetics ’. I say strawman because, apart from anything else, these attacks do an injustice to the concept of aesthetics, not simply by conflating it to a narrow, formalist theory of art/culture, but by conflating it with art/culture at all. For more on how aesthetics should be seen as more complex and dynamic than its misapplication to the concept of beauty allows see Dee 2012.

  5. 5.

    Louis Althusser ([1965] 2005, 227) famously declared that from 1845 Marx broke with his previous humanist philosophy, setting up a distinction between a ‘young Marx’ still heavily influenced by Romantic and Hegelian idealism and a mature Marx that saw humanism as an ideological obfuscation of relations of production.

  6. 6.

    An example of one who takes the passage seriously enough to derive a fundamental truth about humanity from it is Sebastiano Timpanaro ([1970] 1980, 52):

    we should not forget … that this cultural continuity – through which, as Marx observed, we feel so near to the poetry of Homer – has also been rendered possible by the fact that man [sic] as a biological being has remained essentially unchanged from the beginnings of civilization to the present.

  7. 7.

    Spiesser is not the exact word for ‘philistine’, that term is philister (Bull 2002, 59; Leslie 2002, 201). However Spiesser does carry similar connotations of bourgeois dullness (Doherty 2003, 78).

  8. 8.

    Though Bull (2002, 58) notes that Nietzsche never embraced philistinism, indeed ‘as he welcomed the devaluation of all moral values, Nietzsche invested the aesthetic with heightened significance’, nonetheless he claims a form of philistinism is available through Nietzsche. This is elaborated in Bull’s (2011, 15) later Anti-Nietzsche as the figure of Socrates , whom Nietzsche, at least implicitly, associates with the philistine vices of complacent acceptance of ordinary experience and sober reason. This Socrates is somewhat of a Nietzschean caricature and, in trying to create a Socratic philistinism to counter Nietzsche, Bull (2011, 26) is likewise forced to contort Socrates: ‘Rather than the Socrates who practises music, philistinism leaves us with the Socrates in whose eyes artistic enthusiasm has never glowed’. Of course Socrates’ enthusiasm or otherwise was directed toward mimemata and, while Bull (2011, 39) nominally embraces a philistinism that negates more than ‘traditional aesthetics’, it is still aesthetics-as-callistics that remains the negative focus: ‘We will think of ourselves as philistines who are unable to appreciate what is supposedly the aesthetic dimension of experience; as people who have no taste or discrimination, no capacity to appreciate the finer things in life’ (ibid.).

  9. 9.

    ‘For Andy Warhol to paint an automobile seems natural. His studio was known as a factory and his greatest fame came from portraying Campbell’s Soup cans.’ (BMWDrives 2007a, para. 2); ‘When asked if he was pleased with the end result, he replied, “I love the car; it’s better than the work of art itself”’ (ibid., para. 6 emphasis in original).

  10. 10.

    Some artists, such as Audrey Flack, separate their kitsch-inspired work from ‘artworld kitsch’ on the basis that the latter uses ironic distance whereas they have sincere emotional attachment to the imagery. This may or may not be the case, but apart from the fact that, like any other artist, it is her creative subjectivity that is front and centre, Olalquiaga (1992, 50) makes the point that her use of Spanish Marian cult imagery is abstracted from the Marian tradition: ‘A syncretist, she takes elements from any religion that suits her needs, in an interchangeability that renders the specificity of religious traditions secondary.’

  11. 11.

    Anger at the monetary value ascribed to the painting, while Kleer himself was in a state of destitution, was certainly one of the reasons Kleer gave for his attack. But motivation is always problematic in vandalism, as it is the lack of ‘rational intention’ that marks it out from other forms of destructive negation. As in so many of these cases Kleer’s history of mental illness was brought up to downplay his justification for the attack. Interestingly though, one of these justifications included that he himself was an artist contributing to, rather than negating, Newman’s work (Siebers 2002, § III). This notion of unauthorized ‘alterations’ to works as assisting rather than attacking art/culture will be examined in the next section on iconoclasm.

  12. 12.

    There is some debate about whether it was really al-Qaeda members who were behind the attacks (Flood 2002, 658n103), but for the purposes of this discussion it will be assumed it was primarily a Taliban act.

  13. 13.

    Of course it could be that because, as Sheila Fitzpatrick (1978, 8) notes, Lenin believed that ‘cultural power’ had to be ‘patiently acquired’, he was only pretending to love ‘bourgeois art’ as a calculated stage in the eventual revolutionary abolition of art/culture. But all the evidence points to fine art being part of Lenin’s communist vision.

  14. 14.

    Kelly (2003, 7) complains about the lack of ‘historical particularity’ within his iconoclast rogues’ gallery, but he himself blurs mimemata and art/culture together and the only particularity he is interested in is the stylistic elements of works that he ‘deciphers’ as radical truth. For more on this see the next chapter.

  15. 15.

    ‘Actually that he [Baudrillard], who admittedly had no artistic claim or pedigree, would be invited to exhibit his work, amply proved his point: there was nothing special anymore about art’ (Lotringer 2005, 16). Wow, even a haute bourgeois celebrity-academic can be an artist now! The jig is truly up!

  16. 16.

    This is a reference to Situationist-attributed graffiti found around the streets of Paris during the May 1968 uprisings: Sous les pavés, la plage [Under the paving stones, the beach].

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