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[microsound] apples and elephants



> I like Sol LeWitt's work but looking at it the first thing that comes
> to mind is not Socialism.. that's for sure. But I guess the concept of
> idealised unity does.. one can allways dream.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0425/is_4_61/ai_96134618

> What is left out now, as it was in the 1970s, is any discussion or  
> even recognition of why such interpretative projections onto  
> abstract forms were and are convincingly made for and by a given  
> audience at any given time.


an analysis of LeWitt's work can be framed in any discipline:  
Marxist, Lacanian, Freudian, Post-Structuralist, Phenomenologism, etc.

in other words: it isn't the physical properties of his work which  
relates to Marxism, but how one engages with the work and assigns  
value to it...