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From: Clem Category: Art Date: 19 June 2008 Time: 01:03 PM Review: Its now about a week since the infernal debate about the Chapmans between myself and Blip. I remain largely unimpressed and am still waiting for Blips response to the show. Having "debated" the show without having in fact seen the show, following my own review of it, which was honest and heartfelt, Blip chose to cynically trash my views on the basis that he once saw a film by Jean Luc Godard, has read a novel from the nineteenth century, and is therefore an authority on anything he cares to turn his attention to , regardless of whether he has actually seen it or not. Blip asked me to be "a bit nicer" (this is a quote from Deleuze!) whilst going on to describe me as "a bastard", "a snickering sadist", " a little shit" among other things. The worst I described him as was "a darling", and a "little cherub". And now I read in the worldreview archive that he regards the "vaginal orgasm as largely mythical". Perhaps , Blip, you could give us some tips on childbirth as well?Do you think one should breathe in after each contraction, or out? Isnt it frustating , that the chattering classes, with their illusions of bourgeouis mastery, continue to imagine they can patronise the visual arts, for no other reason that ,back at school in the 1980s, art was for "thickoes" whilst the real intelligentsia were off cramming their york notes on "Middlemarch?"You only have to read The Observer Review to realise how hopelessly at sea the cultural "elite" are when it comes to looking at art with any kind of innocence or curiousity or enigma.But its not for me to criticise the uneducated.All I ask is that they play fair. So come on Blip, put away your well fingered Kant and your dog eared novel by Kathy Acker- and SHOW ME THE MONEY!WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THE CHAPMANS SHOW?WE ARE ALL WAITING!! WHAT DID YOU THINK??????????????? And yes, you do actually have to get your arse down to Masons yard before writing about it. WE ARE WAITING!!!! WE ARE WAITING!!!!