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Originally Posted by looking glass spectacle

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after looking around for a minute for clues i found this plaque that indicated that the museum had purchased the long yellow hose from a mexican hose salesman in 1996.

 

... i've never before felt an impulse to immediately dismiss a piece of art as worthless/not art. there's always been something there that i could at least get a critical/interpretive handle on... some real or imagined more or less vague intention towards meaning that i could at least sink my teeth into and then accept or reject on those terms... at least engaging the work before saying that i don't like it/think it's poorly executed/downright idiotic...

but this absolutely refuses to be anything other than simply a hose... is that the point? more duchamp than duchamp? urinal as urinal and not readymade? if so, why is the hose not in use as a hose?


does anyone else "get it"?

i could come up with some sort of bullshit invention in 3 seconds.

eg- "the yellow hose is meant to remind us of the workers who labor to support the esthetic pleasures of the upper classes. like orozco, many of those workers are of mexican origin, and the bilingual title alludes to this..."

etc etc

ha ha ha

i still thik it's crap. but it do like how it fucks up the museum like they're in the middle of tending the yard or something. not that i have been there.

i hope he made good money from it though.

 

i haven't read the rest of the thread, i supposed there is much blah blah, but time is short.