Allan Kaprow

From Steven Cottingham: This is an older text that I am finding to be surprisingly relevant. Among other things, he discusses the fact that the things that inspire art typically remain more fascinating than the art itself. “The Education of the Un-Artist” by Allan Kaprow:http://www.scribd.com/doc/52617361/Allan-Kaprow-Education-of-the-Un-Artist-Pt-1 In the first paragraph, he argues that ‘nonart is more

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer

After the Foucault reading of Magritte: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/12/24/121224fa_fact_foer submitted by Steven Cottingham

On Magritte

Here’s a reading of Magritte’s work that talks about it in terms of how the painter aims to disrupt signs and their meanings, while pointing to the arbitrariness of language, which is I think what Foucault was trying to elucidate in Chapter Four but if so, with a much more poetic and playful language. I