RAND AND ART My experience with Rand wasn’t through libertarianism, but through

RAND AND ART
My experience with Rand wasn’t through libertarianism, but through her Romantic Manifesto which was my first and IMO the best book on the philosophy of art – which you’d expect from someone who wrote about Roark and Architecture – the highest visual art form.

I studied under Jack Goldstein (suicided), Rudy Zalinger (think yale dinosaur paintings), Nancy Hoffman (lesbian figure artist) and many others. I studied under a visiting artist that worked in cardboard named Peter M… something, whose name I’m embarrassed to say that I can’t recall. Today we prototype in expanded foam, but prototyping in cardboard is much more pleasurable to work with.

It was a very interesting – theoretical period in which to study art. Today it’s not. It’s kindergarten material like everything else.

The enemy killed our arts on purpose.