Klarinet Archive - Posting 000345.txt from 2005/02

From: X-UH-MailScanner-r.n.taylor@-----.uk
Subj: RE: [kl] composer's intentions
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:16:01 -0500


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From: dnleeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]
Sent: 22 February 2005 20:24
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] composer's intentions

I'm not sure that the issue is how well or how badly the artist did it,
though I think you meant "the creator."

I see it as a question of intellectual property rights. The text of a
Shakespearean play is not casually alterable. The libretto of a DaPonte
opera is not causally modified. The statue of Venus di Milo should not be
covered with a hoop skirt. Such things are culture clashes of uncertain
value and not authorized by the originator.

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On shaky ground, not just with Shakespeare as others have pointed out, but
also with the visual arts - ever since Duchamp drew a moustache on the image
of the Mona Lisa (admittedly not the original - perhaps it's just as well
that other famous musical manuscript went missing) artists have been
exploring actions like this. Here are some more recent examples - the first
being rather close to Dan's own notion.

Cornelia Parker

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,909667,00.html

Jake & Dinos Chapman

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,926134,00.html

Of course, I accept that the fact that people have 'done things' doesn't
grant them legitimacy, and I personally feel far more comfortable with the
sentiment behind Robert Rauschenberg's 'Erased De Kooning'

http://www.temporaryart.org/artvandals/08.html

where he at least did it with the artist's collaboration, than I do with the
action of the Chapmans.

Sorry to move so far from the clarinet, but it is interesting how much the
issues collide from one art form to another.

Noel

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