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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, Pestorius identified himself as the target of "A Pest" and described the song as "troubling" — "not just threatening and aggressive, it's hysterical". He summarized his grievance with [[Art & Language]] as follows:<ref>https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conference_2012.pdf</ref><blockquote>In the 1970s, the Australian artist Ian Burn (1939–1993) was a key member of the Art & Language collective. However, since Burn’s untimely death his name and important contribution have been slipping away in official accounts of Art & Language history. What might be at stake in such deceit, to say nothing of the hypocrisy involved? [http://www.davidpestorius.com/pubs/Art-and-Language.pdf This paper] will chart the writer’s investigation of this art historical distortion, an investigation that prompted an extraordinary threat (in the guise of a song) from Burn’s former Art & Language collaborator, [[Mel Ramsden]], who rather than admit and express remorse for obscuring and minimising the place of friend’s work has continued to act like a common thug. This is a sobering account, to be sure, but it is also a salutary lesson for those who might question the actions of ruthless artists determined to succeed in show business at any cost.</blockquote>Art & Language's official reply to Pestorius's "Defective Mirror" essay was a letter to the editor <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </del>Art Monthly Australia published in May 2006: "In Response: David Pestorius and the Paul Maenz Archive".</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, Pestorius identified himself as the target of "A Pest" and described the song as "troubling" — "not just threatening and aggressive, it's hysterical". He summarized his grievance with [[Art & Language]] as follows:<ref>https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conference_2012.pdf</ref><blockquote>In the 1970s, the Australian artist Ian Burn (1939–1993) was a key member of the Art & Language collective. However, since Burn’s untimely death his name and important contribution have been slipping away in official accounts of Art & Language history. What might be at stake in such deceit, to say nothing of the hypocrisy involved? [http://www.davidpestorius.com/pubs/Art-and-Language.pdf This paper] will chart the writer’s investigation of this art historical distortion, an investigation that prompted an extraordinary threat (in the guise of a song) from Burn’s former Art & Language collaborator, [[Mel Ramsden]], who rather than admit and express remorse for obscuring and minimising the place of friend’s work has continued to act like a common thug. This is a sobering account, to be sure, but it is also a salutary lesson for those who might question the actions of ruthless artists determined to succeed in show business at any cost.</blockquote>Art & Language's official reply to Pestorius's "Defective Mirror" essay was a letter to the editor <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in ''</ins>Art Monthly Australia<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>published in May 2006: "In Response: David Pestorius and the Paul Maenz Archive".</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, Pestorius <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wrote again of his grievance with Art & Language and </del>identified himself as the target of "A Pest<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He </del>described the song as "troubling" — "not just threatening and aggressive, it's hysterical" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>summarized his <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dispute </del>as follows:<ref>https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conference_2012.pdf</ref><blockquote>In the 1970s, the Australian artist Ian Burn (1939–1993) was a key member of the Art & Language collective. However, since Burn’s untimely death his name and important contribution have been slipping away in official accounts of Art & Language history. What might be at stake in such deceit, to say nothing of the hypocrisy involved? [http://www.davidpestorius.com/pubs/Art-and-Language.pdf This paper] will chart the writer’s investigation of this art historical distortion, an investigation that prompted an extraordinary threat (in the guise of a song) from Burn’s former Art & Language collaborator, [[Mel Ramsden]], who rather than admit and express remorse for obscuring and minimising the place of friend’s work has continued to act like a common thug. This is a sobering account, to be sure, but it is also a salutary lesson for those who might question the actions of ruthless artists determined to succeed in show business at any cost.</blockquote>Art & Language's official reply to Pestorius's "Defective Mirror" essay was a letter to the editor of Art Monthly Australia<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>"In Response: David Pestorius and the Paul Maenz Archive<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">,</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">published in May 2006</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, Pestorius identified himself as the target of "A Pest" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>described the song as "troubling" — "not just threatening and aggressive, it's hysterical"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. He </ins>summarized his <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">grievance with [[Art & Language]] </ins>as follows:<ref>https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conference_2012.pdf</ref><blockquote>In the 1970s, the Australian artist Ian Burn (1939–1993) was a key member of the Art & Language collective. However, since Burn’s untimely death his name and important contribution have been slipping away in official accounts of Art & Language history. What might be at stake in such deceit, to say nothing of the hypocrisy involved? [http://www.davidpestorius.com/pubs/Art-and-Language.pdf This paper] will chart the writer’s investigation of this art historical distortion, an investigation that prompted an extraordinary threat (in the guise of a song) from Burn’s former Art & Language collaborator, [[Mel Ramsden]], who rather than admit and express remorse for obscuring and minimising the place of friend’s work has continued to act like a common thug. This is a sobering account, to be sure, but it is also a salutary lesson for those who might question the actions of ruthless artists determined to succeed in show business at any cost.</blockquote>Art & Language's official reply to Pestorius's "Defective Mirror" essay was a letter to the editor of Art Monthly Australia <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">published in May 2006: </ins>"In Response: David Pestorius and the Paul Maenz Archive".</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, Pestorius wrote again of his grievance with Art & Language and identified himself as the target of "A Pest." He described the song as "troubling" — "not just threatening and aggressive, it's hysterical" and summarized his dispute as follows:<ref>https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conference_2012.pdf</ref><blockquote>In the 1970s, the Australian artist Ian Burn (1939–1993) was a key member of the Art & Language collective. However, since Burn’s untimely death his name and important contribution have been slipping away in official accounts of Art & Language history. What might be at stake in such deceit, to say nothing of the hypocrisy involved? [http://www.davidpestorius.com/pubs/Art-and-Language.pdf This paper] will chart the writer’s investigation of this art historical distortion, an investigation that prompted an extraordinary threat (in the guise of a song) from Burn’s former Art & Language collaborator, [[Mel Ramsden]], who rather than admit and express remorse for obscuring and minimising the place of friend’s work has continued to act like a common thug. This is a sobering account, to be sure, but it is also a salutary lesson for those who might question the actions of ruthless artists determined to succeed in show business at any cost.</blockquote>Art & Language's official reply to Pestorius's essay was a letter to the editor of Art Monthly Australia, "In Response: David Pestorius and the Paul Maenz Archive," published in May 2006.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2012, Pestorius wrote again of his grievance with Art & Language and identified himself as the target of "A Pest." He described the song as "troubling" — "not just threatening and aggressive, it's hysterical" and summarized his dispute as follows:<ref>https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/conference_2012.pdf</ref><blockquote>In the 1970s, the Australian artist Ian Burn (1939–1993) was a key member of the Art & Language collective. However, since Burn’s untimely death his name and important contribution have been slipping away in official accounts of Art & Language history. What might be at stake in such deceit, to say nothing of the hypocrisy involved? [http://www.davidpestorius.com/pubs/Art-and-Language.pdf This paper] will chart the writer’s investigation of this art historical distortion, an investigation that prompted an extraordinary threat (in the guise of a song) from Burn’s former Art & Language collaborator, [[Mel Ramsden]], who rather than admit and express remorse for obscuring and minimising the place of friend’s work has continued to act like a common thug. This is a sobering account, to be sure, but it is also a salutary lesson for those who might question the actions of ruthless artists determined to succeed in show business at any cost.</blockquote>Art & Language's official reply to Pestorius's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Defective Mirror" </ins>essay was a letter to the editor of Art Monthly Australia, "In Response: David Pestorius and the Paul Maenz Archive," published in May 2006.</div></td></tr>
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