Q1: Dick Higgins talks about how a characteristic of the painting world is that it is institutionalized. This is due to the fact that it exists in a institution and paintings are viewed as expensive ornaments. He says that there is "no sense of dialogue in them". What does he mean by that? Does is mean that there can be no discussion upon what the paintings are symbolizing because they are there to just to spectate? People think they are just beautiful and that's all. Is that also what he means when hes says that 'I am the state' will be replaced with "After me the deluge"?
Q2: George Baker begins by saying how photograph has expanded to using many different props to complement picutures. He then talks about the photograph being torn between narrativity and stasis. I don't understand this description of the photograph. Is he saying that the life of the picture is the narrativity and the "its devotion" to equilibrium is its stasis?
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