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- From: eauu018@orion.oac.uci.edu (Glenn Kaino)
- Subject: Re: What is Art? :-)
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- References: <MfLR_x200WBNI671dj@andrew.cmu.edu> <paulhz-250193091715@jegog.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 09:27:40 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.artcom
-
- In article <paulhz-250193091715@jegog.acns.nwu.edu>,
- paulhz@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Paul Hertz) wrote:
- >
- > In article <MfLR_x200WBNI671dj@andrew.cmu.edu>, Carl Loeffler
- > <cel+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
- > >
- > >
- > > ANYTHING you get away with...
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Art is whatever sells in the art market.
- >
- > As for the other stuff people do...could be a form of brain damage.
- >
- >
- >
- > /\\ | paul-hertz@nwu.edu (Paul Hertz)
- > / \\ | Advanced Technology Group, Northwestern University
- > / \/ \| 627 Dartmouth Place
- > \ /\//| Evanston, IL 60208
- > / | The whole world ice skates on a thin layer of brain damage
- > \\// | -- Donald Barthelme
-
- spoken like true yuppie scum.
-