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On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> Yeah, that puts it in a nutshell, Stephen.
>
> And that leads to the question of how, as audience to all kinds of art, we
> cut through the economic bullshit & see what actually does the 'work of
> art.'
>
> Everything Ive seen of Hirst's fails (for me).
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> Doug
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> On 16-Apr-10, at 6:42 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
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> Curious how Damien Hirst mimics Warhol. In fact, some suggest that Hirst
>> is most fundamentally interested in how he can play and indeed trump the art
>> world with marketing schemes that trump, i.e. victimize collectors and
>> institutions, You might think you are looking at that diamond encrusted
>> skull, but what you are really looking at is a piece of conceptual art in
>> which Hirst and his 'creative' team of financial advisers have concocted a
>> smoke and mirrors way of capturing money, lots of it. The actual art is
>> 'elsewhere' and it is the art of making money.
>> By these terms, Goldman Sachs should have hired Damien HIrst. He's got the
>> 'derivative' market down cold and, surely, will not go to jail. Imagination
>> is clearly a transferable skill - if you are wondering why any family will
>> spend 30K plus a year to send a kid thru an MFA program. Or wondering why
>> art schools charge and profit that much.
>> One can get cynical here about certain practices under the name of 'art'.
>> Now apparently the biz of "poetry".
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> The secret
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> which got lost neither hides
> nor reveals itself, it shows forth
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> tokens.
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> Charles Olson
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