A Pledge of Allegiance

It is that time of year, where we take stock and reflect. More specifically, here at this blog, on the state of "art", the images we see every day and why iskm is pursuing what we do.

This time last year the Critic's Manifesto was front and center and served as inspiration. This year, a different manifesto, a pledge in fact:

"The feeling of new art is fugitive ... here for the moment, gone forever. It's only truly valuable before it's surrounded by the mystique of money, while it's still owned by culture, before it becomes booty." from Rene Ricard's Pledge of Allegiance published in Artforum, November 1982.

Art does need to be fugitive.

We like the idea and notion of the ishotkatemoss collage as fugitive ... and see a parallel to the Christie's London auction as further stark evidence of kate's image as booty, creeping from the commercial realm to the perceived artistic. Case in point, Mario Sorrenti's 1992 image of a certain booty, that had been used in an advertising campaign for a cologne:

This image sold at the Christie's auction for £49,875 (approx. $80,000), a world record price for this "artist".

Art is valuable before it's surrounded by the mystique of money ...

At which point the art is cologne ... "like a bad smell, the image lingers" ... and becomes booty.

So, Happy New Year. Let's go shoot kate.

Observe. Slow Down. Shoot. Submit.

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