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- From: duane@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (duane.galensky)
- Subject: Re: What is Art? :-)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:49:10 GMT
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- In article <93026.133017IO92582@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO92582@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Chris Masters) writes:
- >Paul Hertz may be yuppy scum, but he has a very good point.
- >From a professional standpoint, it does no good to make art if you cant
- >sell it. You get very hungry very fast. The sentiment of being an
- >artist to create is very noble and is a great mindset to have,
- >unfortunately, practicality has a way of ruining a good idea.
- >
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- i don't think it's a question of who is or isn't yuppie scum.
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- we have a National Endowment for the Arts whose purpose is
- to broaden the participants beyond those which are commercially
- viable today. remember that it's those people out there on the
- fringe today who will be commercially hot tomorrow, so without
- some support beyond pure supply/demand economics, we'd be leading
- very boring lives indeed.
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- thankfully, some folks would rather be hungry than produce art
- that pleases mainstream Amerika. it's a chance to
- influence what Amerika will think about next.
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- duane
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