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February 1, 2007
BlogBack: In Defense of Jed Perl
Ken Conley, an artist and teacher from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, responds to my critique of Jed Perl's cover story in the Feb. 5 issue of The New Republic.
In other words, here's a critic of a critic of a critic:
Might you be expressing intolerance for his viewpoint? Why do you feel as though you HAVE TO respond to his positions---to fight back? If he is wrong, conservative, dangerous, etc., perhaps letting his opinions lie there is best? Are you, in a way, proving his points? A more productive position might be to write about specific art with specific ideas that refute or undermine his point of view. Are you attacking him on a personal level, just a little bit?
A Personal Note: In my own blogger's way of showing respect, I won't post this, or anything else, in the "Recent Posts" column of the ArtsJournal website, until another AJ contributor posts above Jan Herman's Molly Ivins obit.
A tough truth-teller to power.
Posted February 1, 2007 1:05 PM
