Originally Posted by ARTelevision

My relationship with Keith was a personal as well as a professional one. And yes, he was well aware of my ideas regarding the nature and significance of political propaganda as art.

The first socio-political issue he chose to make art with was drugs and young people. After that, he included the political and racial liberation of South Africa and after that - after he was diagnosed - he began his work informed by the politics of HIV.

Just as with many folks here, we agreed to disagree. This is not a subject of disagreement I'm unfamiliar with, by any means. I simply choose to maintain an unpopular position on it. The reason for this is that I see our collective identity being subverted by mass culture. I've made these points many times. My responses in this thread involve a continuation of those thoughts.