"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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"David Snedeker" wrote

You may be confusing "Finnegan's Wake," with "Ulysses." "Finnegan's
Wake
IS
arguably unintelligible. "Ulysses" is a masterpiece of the English
language
and the Irish mind.


no doubt that "finnegan's wake" is unintelligable. "ulysses" is
merely
boring.

yfitons
wayno (of course, there are people who honestly believe that jackson
pollock
was an "artist")


Damn you can surprise me yet. I'd say try Joyce again every 5 years but
that would be patronizing. (Molly Bloom, boring? I guess I missed it.) I
concede its a trudge, and that Ive read it in sections, but boring?

I will say Pollock was an artist, a painter even, (trained by Thomas Hart
Benton.) But once he did what he did with his "action painting" there
really was no need for as many others to take the same dripping route. And
he probably did benefit from a push by USIA. I thought the film "Pollock"
did him justice at least as far as the way he led the later part of his
short life.

For myself, the Northwest School (Mark Toby, Graves, Callahan, and
especially Guy Anderson) better fill up that part of the '50s-'60s. (Add
Stella not NW). But you might pan their dark NW side and Asian influences.)

So who is an "artist" anyway? I mean who, in your opinion, is an authentic
contemporary painter anyway?

Dave