Entrapped By French Philosophy, Without a Clue
And who would strike us clueless but a Frenchman and aren’t they all Frenchmen, these mystery thinkers like Michel Foucault and Jacques Darrida. And now, come to haunt us on our own shores, Jean Baudrillard. He has a book to flog, titled The Conspiracy of Art.
Philosophy has either taken a wrong turn semantically or else it’s just the popular thing to write and speak obscurely, so no ordinary soul could possibly understand. The U.S. Tax Code is more philosophy than law, defined in this way.
But I make my case by the following statements concerning art and leave it to your sole (soul?) discretion to judge the words of the artist against the words of Baudrillard:
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings---George Tooker, artist
The art scene is but a scene or obscene mask for the reality that all the world is trans-aestheticized---Jean Baudrillard
I guess the ‘art scene’ is what you care to make it. Personally, I find George Took…