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    SCULPTUREFOR THE EYE,PAINTINGS

    TO BETOUCHEDRICHARD ARTSCHWAGER'S MIXED MESSAGES

    tBY CHARMAINE PICARD

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    1hc piano. And trttveled to F.urol)t.l thrt.'t' timeson an oc,on hnt'rbt..forehe W(H; 10 y('ars old." say& Ann."II...... thin oft'lubbm(ssamonartu4ts. dt.>tt!Ns.cunllors. uncicolJ4!CWrs. nying, gDf'..ag-aan..taoythmg that I undcr...landnbout art.

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    n\' the ti me they're five years old they want to hop around

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    L1ving in this society: I hope people are motivated by

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    1 think that there's a natural tendency toward civilization.

    \\'henIwas a teenager,I had a conversation withmy

    a child.The best ofcapitalist society is toys. Of course,

    there's a lot of the pleasure principle operating on \Vall

    Street Icould have had fun with that.Itry to playgames with the viewer. Is there any pleasure in looking at

    some thing? Or playing something, ifit's a musicalins-

    trument?

    The "blps" are my best cheat.I make myself a constant,

    his sculpture Yol seem to be into art and you're sort of interested in sci there.And then the viewer consumes it-by looking at it. I

    Courtesy Brrkele)Art l\luscum

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    CURRENTLYONV l EW:

    "Richard

    A rtsc hwap;cr!

    at the \Vhitnev.\luseum of

    American Art,

    Ne'" York;"R ichard

    Arhchwap;er,

    blps." at 'rious

    location!nH:thi ng and then it doesn't go anywhere,and you HJd le

    \\ith something else.

    I've always tried to make something that wasn't there

    before. You take yourself- physical, mental-as

    material.

    $tarring things and resolving them, and feeding one's

    l' iosiry-that gets more specialized over time.

    l\1ostly what we artists make are toys.There should

    b 'orne kind of immediate appeal-much as a toy has to

    had a good run of those things.

    There are commercial artists-and there arc workers.1have never wanted to be a professional anything, to this

    day.I really like the idea of just hanging around. We can't

    do that,ofcourse, which I realized ea rly on.l asked myself,

    "llowamI going to do art that is not commercial art?"

    Art is useless looking, or useless seeing-these objects arc

    not necessary to life.\e start with the pleasure principle

    we're born with that-which is healthy. Anti the pleasure

    principle is a constant in life-we always go back to it. 0

    -Astold to Faye Hirsch

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