Word: notionalism
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...considering what the curators are up against. First, there's the popular opinion that conceptual art, because of its emphasis on ideas over objects, on language over visuality on non-traditional over traditional forms of art, is therefore dry, academic and unintelligible. And then there's the art-historical notion that non-Western forms of conceptualism are merely borrowed from Western prototypes...
...opposition to the popular notion that conceptualism is dry and hyper-intellectual, the curators are careful to pick pieces which display a range of emotions. Many of the pieces in the show, for instance, are disarmingly comical: like Vincent Trasov's campaign for mayor as Mr. Peanut, or Goran Trbuljak's photograph of a door with the inscription, "From time to time I stuck my finger through a hole in the door of the Modern Art Gallery without the management's knowledge." Others, like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon...
...Dade County, Raab voted for Gore on his absentee ballot. "It's mind-boggling, very unfathomable, that all of a sudden this vote counts," he says. "I think it's very exciting that an individual vote of people living in Israel affects the American scene." And that's a notion that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate absentee ballots without a postmark would be accepted until November 17 had even sent some scrambling for ways to get their ballot papers off to the Sunshine State...
...notion that Israel has pursued a "policy of restraint" would be greeted with bitter cynicism by a Palestinian population that has lost almost 200 people in the past seven weeks as the Israelis have deployed everything from rubber-coated bullets to tank artillery and air-to-surface missiles against Palestinian militants. But the fact remains that the Israeli military is capable of a far higher degree of violence than it has unleashed thus far, and Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government is under increasing domestic pressure to up the ante. Israel has once again cordoned off Palestinian towns throughout...
...Dade County, Raab voted for Gore on his absentee ballot. "It's mind-boggling, very unfathomable, that all of a sudden this vote counts," he says. "I think it's very exciting that an individual vote of people living in Israel affects the American scene." And that's a notion that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate absentee ballots without a postmark would be accepted until November 17 had even sent some scrambling for ways to get their ballot papers off to the Sunshine State...