Sontag, "Happenings"

[jbor]

Monk and Coleman are undoubtedly "big things", but Susan Sontag is hardly
just a "mouthy chick"! Ever read *The Benefactor* (1963), or *Death Kit*
(1967)?

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    "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art."
                      Susan Sontag, *Evergreen Review*, 1964


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>From: Richard Fiero <rfiero at pophost.com>

> I have to agree with Judy.
>
> The whole tone of this list is weird and uncomfortably so.
> For starters, Monk and Coleman are not little things. They are big
> things from the 50's that had enormous stature.
> Secondly, the 60's wasn't just hula hoops and a few mouthy chicks.
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>From: "Otto Sell" <o.sell at telda.net>
>
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> From that
> essay I get the impression that Judy's and Sontag's view of art are not so
> far apart from each other as it seems first when I read the conclusion:
>
> "In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." The shared
> satisfaction of actor-audience bears some kind of sexuality - not only in
> the terms, overcoming, closing the gap between the two poles of a binary
> opposition.