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using their work politically. As art it doesn't interest me much but I like it as a mixture, a kind of isolated use of art in a political context. 

UM: Anti-art is anti-establishment; it has a political and societal significance.

LL: Not necessarily. Sometimes it's just anti-art establishment. Especially in New York, where everything is so involved with other art and other artists, it tends to be ^[[an]] anti-art world, or in the art world rather than in the real world.

UM: Sometimes there is anti-art in terms of life-style, which becomes [[crossed out]] to ^[[be a]][[\crossed out]] substitute xx for [[?]] the creation of works of art.

LL: Of course that's what the Dadaists and Surrealists had in mind, but most artists that I know well today have a life-style as artists but not as anti-artists. That is, they see everything in terms of or from the viewpoint of their art; the way they live is focused on the fact that they are making art.

UM: And^[[how do [[crossed out]]t[[/crossed out]] you see]] the Hell's angels? ^[[as]] life style ^[[or]] as [[anti-artists]]

LL: Well, [[that's]] just another form of what Huebler's doing. It's a matter of looking at something, or life, from an art viewpoint, and therefore making it art, seeing it, xx if not an art context, then in a context involving isolation of the phenomenon in any way. Look at the Hells Angels' life style as an isolated phenomenon and it can be art, [[á]] la Duchamp. But imposing a new system, no matter how arbitrary, as Huebler does, is making life art in a more rigorous and intelligent way.

Maybe the most anti-art artist I know whose work I like is Iain Baxter, who calls himself the N.E. Thing Co. he does a little bit of everything, and would much xx prefer to work entirely outside of the art world. He's not the least bit concerned if someone can't say, "Oh, that must be a Baxter" on the basis of style. He doesn't have or want a style and that frees him to do anything he wants. Bob Morris has always had an esthetic either than a style [[crossed out]] too [[\crossed out]], but he has worked in bodied of work[[crossed out]]e[[\crossed out]] that are coherent in themselves, even when they co-exist with very different work, like his "anti-form" random roomsful and the simultaneous I-beam sculptures.