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- From: enl@silver.lcs.mit.edu (Erik N. Levin)
- Newsgroups: rec.juggling
- Subject: Impressive tricks
- Message-ID: <9212220130.AA17807@silver.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:30:04 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
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- As a general comment on all arts, musicians, painters, sculpers, writers,
- etc. have all been aware for centuries that no one appreciates an art until
- they have learned about it. Remember your first opera? almost everyone \
- hates it. But, after learning about the music, the background of the
- composers, the base story, etc., a fair number of people learn to like it.
- I personally cant tell the difference between _Carmen_ and _the_Ring_Cycle_,
- but opera lovers can. (This is an easy example to understand)
- Other well known examples are modern sculpture (Eg: probably about 90%
- of US. college campuses have a sculpture nicknamed `rusto', `the junk pile',
- or something similar) and many modern era painters.
- As was stated earlier, by (reference forgotten), you must teach your
- audience to appreciate your art. But even if you do, not everyone will
- appreciate it. Remember the guy that could do twelve at the circus? (no, not
- the Tongan, but around the same time) Or so someone thought they remembered.
- (See the old listserv archives on moocow if you don't know the thread I'm
- refering to... a few month either way of july 91 I think)
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- Erik Levin enl@silver.lcs.mit.edu
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