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- From: paulhz@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Paul Hertz)
- Subject: Re: What is Art? :-)
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:14:21 GMT
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- In article <MfLR_x200WBNI671dj@andrew.cmu.edu>, Carl Loeffler
- <cel+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
- >
- >
- > ANYTHING you get away with...
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- At last, someone who's willing to tip his hand! No more of this late
- romantic hash about life styles and sentiments.
-
- Art is whatever the dealer/collector/critic axis sanctions within the art
- market, and those who are clever enough to slip one by them (usually by
- adopting the appropriate intellectual badges, which are currently (alas,
- still...) pomo decon) are privileged to call themselves professional
- artists.
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- Art is whatever sells in the art market.
-
- As for the other stuff people do...could be a form of brain damage.
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