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- From: au462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert Drake)
- Newsgroups: alt.artcom
- Subject: Re: What is Art
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:04:15 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- >In article <1jnvtgINN2u9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, au462@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
- >(Robert Drake) wrote:
- >>
- >>
- >> Art is theft.
- >
- >Theft of what?
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- Theft (by the "cultural elite":--sorry danny boy used up
- that term) of the right of every human to creativity and
- expression. Art (capital "A") and the Art System puts up
- a wall between what is & is not Art--elevating some folk's
- acts of creation and negating other's. Ultimately it's
- enforced by the Market, so that Money determines what is
- and is not Art--
-
- it's no accident that the legal definition of "pornography"
- specifically excuses "Art" (historically, "art movies" is a
- euphamism for "porn flick", a usage having it's roots in
- Victorian times when the male censors didn't want to give
- up their etchings)--why should "Art" receive such privilage?
-
- i'm working on a piece right now, incorporating a sheaf of
- poems written by a woman in the 1940's--poems i picked out
- of the garbage after she died. she goave up poetry after
- highschool & went on to live a "normal" life of wife/mother,
- she wasn't given permission to be an artist, her art was stolen
- from her by the system that lets some people in, keeps
- most out. the Art System.
-
- Art is Theft.
-
- --luigi
-