Wystan wrote:
> the problem with the bums on seats measure is that it makes no
>distinction between art and entertainment. The distinction that might more
>effectively be blurred is that between art and research.
Ye-es - I too have made that connection - though this might also
encourage the belief that art doesn't matter for what it does, uniquely,
and which other human activities don't do. As if writing a poem were
simply a matter of scholarship, or scrabbling away in a laboratory
torturing mice, and has some definite goal in mind which may, even, turn
a tidy profit to some industry one day.
I think art has to legitimise itself on its own million feet, even if
they are only a pair of clouds.
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