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15 [[strikethrough]] UM: And perhaps the same thing in Abstract Expressionism and in Op and in Pop. You only remember just a few names. [[/strikethrough]] [[left margin] MORE & clearer [[/left margin]] LL: [[strikethrough]] But I think it probably , [[/strikethrough]] Back to the anti-art thing, the two artists that I know of [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] who most anti-art are and [[strikethrough]] in a funny sense are probably [[/strikethrough]] may be the most "modern" artist[[strikethrough]]s, although I'm not necessarily ..... fond of with everything they do, [[/strikethrough]] are Iain Baxter in Vancouver Canada, who calls himself & his wife the N.E. Thing Company, [[strikethrough]] and again Bob Morris, in a funny way. I think Bob Morris [[/strikethrough]] who has always had an aesthetic rather than a style. There's a consistent way of thinking that runs through his work, but he's made it very clear that he's not going to be stuck with one style. In [[strikethrough]] fact [[/strikethrough]] 1964-65 he had two shows within a couple of months [[strikethrough]] in 1964 1965 [[/strikethrough]] that were very different and [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] he can do [[strikethrough]] field beans(?) [[/strikethrough]] theater pieces and SC & dirt and pieces and this and that. I think the quality of the work, and I hate to use that word when it's been perverted by Greenberg for instance, tends to suffer. [[strikethrough]] to a certain extent but [[/strikethrough]] Where Morris has ((?)) work co-existing simultaneously he hasn't one remnant of a single style. Iain does a little bit of everything. [[strikethrough]] He absolutely.. he has no [[/strikethrough]] style, he's not the least bit interested in what art is, and in that sense he's really broken out of it. He does crassly commercial things with this company business. He does beautiful earth work things, he does idea things. You name it and he's done it and he's not the least bit concerned if somebody can't say, "oh, that must be an Iain Baxter" [[strikethrough]] in terms [[/strikethrough]] on the basis of style. And I don't think Morris is really concerned with that anymore either. Whereas [[strikethrough]] Barry and Huebler [[/strikethrough]] Werber and Kosuth are [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] very much interested in retaining... [[left margin]]compare w Morris- [[/left margin]] UM: A trade-mark?
