Fighting Text with Text: An Introduction

(PART ONE - FIGHTING PREJUDICE WITH TEXT: MONKEY'S RIGHT TO PAINT) Defining the Western Critic's Usual 'MUCOS Syndrome'

Who the Hell is Max Tifo?

The Harsh Rules of the Chinese Game

From the Notebook of a Cultural Guerilla: Some Major Questions

My Attack at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: A Marginal Coup Turns into an Embarrassment for the Establishment

The Article Revealing the Fait Accompli

The Show of Sultan Suleyman, The Magnificent: An Opportunity Totally Wasted by Turks

Monkeys' Right to Paint: Defining What's Authentic

The Raid at the Centre Pompidou: Denouncing a Scandalous Show: Les Magiciens de la Terre

Insufficient Expertise

Third Text: Another Rebellion Against Injustice

Araeen's Critiques on Magiciens de La Terre

The Other Story: A Show Curated by the Non-Western Brain

The Case of Black Artists

Paris and the Arab Art World

The Advantages and Disadvantages of a Passport

Some Historical Reminder: Starting with William Barrett

Edward Said: Deciphering What Lies Behind the Imperialistic Attitude

Paul Gauguin: The Fugitive of the Western Society

MOMA's Famous Confession Show: Primitivism in XXth Century Art

Non-Western Influences on Expressionism

Cubists: Justifying Their Adventure through Their Inspiration Land: Africa

Henri Matisse: The Influence of Islam and Africa

Surrealism: Discovering the Eastern and Southern Flexibility of Dreams and Imagination

Modern Sculptors: How Original, How Western?!!

Giacometti: A Careful Observer of the Pre-Colombians and the Aztecs

Henry Moore: A Contributor to.. XXth Century Primitive Art (!)

Constantin Brancusi: The Diligent Craftsman of African Art

Universal Attitudes and Themes for National Passports: A Problem Even for Abstract Expressionists

Antoni Tapies: A Master of .. Eastern Philosophies

The Graffiti Example

Rauschenbeg's Cultural Overseas Interchange: A One-Way Street

More Recent Talk

What the West Brought to Modern Art: A Few Conclusions

Prejudices and the Dilemma of the Non-Western Artist

Nobody Lives 700 Years, Not Even Artists!

Who Looks More Contemporary Anyway!

Artsy Talk: How Far Should We Go Back in History?

Ben Vautier and the MUCOS Syndrome

Film-making and the MUCOS Syndrome

The World of Communications Is Not the Western World Only: McDonald's and Shish Kebaps

Alvin Toffler's on the New Non-National Order of Economics

The Post-Modern Basket: Dip Your Own Sauce

This Has Been Done Before

The Erroneous Image That the Western Person Has or His/Her Eastern of Southern Friend

Political Misinformation And Prejudice: A Personal Note - The Case of Armenians And Kurds in Turkey

Now It's Time to Forget About Passports

(PART TWO - THE POST DUCHAMP CRISIS: FIGHTING TEXT WITH TEXT) The Concepts Must be Crazy

The Text: Guardian Angel of Dense Forests

Duchamp and the Dada Years

Arthur Cravan, the Coming to Life of Dada

The Nude 'Descends from a Staircase' and Brings Us the Ready-Made

Marcel, the Lazy Chess Player Who Likes to Breathe

On Why Marcel Preferred Cigars to Pipes

Picasso or Marcel?

Duchamp and Picabia: Early Post-Modernists

The Wave of Duchamp-Influence throughout the XXth Century

Andy Warhol: Pop Art or Neo-Dada?

Fluxus: More Ready-Mades, More Concepts. Much Happening

The Loss of the Idea of Originality in the Art Work

Neo-Expressionism: The Resurgence of Paint, and the Paranoia that Freaked Out the Conceptualists: 'Art is Dead'

The Identity of the New-Expressionist Painter

The Identity of the New-Expressionist Painter

The Assaults on New Expressionism: Hatred-Mania

What the Aggressors Would Not Admit about the New Painting

Turkey's Special Case: First-Time Simultaneity

Baselitz and Co.: Pioneers of the New Painting, or the Boredome of Stuffed Repetitive Angst?

New York Art Now... or Passe Art with New York Text Now?

The Fifth Generation of 'Ready-Made-Maders' Threaten the Fourth!

Arrogance and Hidden Pastiche

Take Any Three Objects: Create Your Own Conceptual World

The Parisian Aggressions on the New Bachelors of Duchamp

The Text: A Castle Made of References, Cross-References - Notes - Bibliographies

The sine qua non Condition for the Efficiency of the Text: The Complementary Bibliographic References of Artists' Credentials

The Contemporary Artist: 'Me, No Understand'

Maybe Schnabel Should Have Chosen Kiefer's Tactics

What Would Tom Wolfe Say about Today's Text?

Where Are the Real Exits?

A Final Chat With Marcel

Is Duchamp Over-Rated or the First Really Purely Western Contemporary?

Conclusion

Epilogue