Article: Reasoning about racism. (Letters).

To the Editors:

After reading Eleanor Heartney's article on the recent Adrian Piper retrospective [A.i.A., Nov. '01] and the subsequent exchange of letters between the two [A.i.A., Jan. '02], it is difficult to understand how any form of rational argument can adequately express the complexity of the social, economic, political, religious and cultural issues that racism entails. Immanuel Kant will not and cannot suffice, no matter how artists or critics may apply predetermined categories to our experience of the world.

Piper, when her work achieves the necessary distance, communicates an emotional substance capable of moving the viewer beyond the scope of ...

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