This was kinda cool too:
http://one-story.com/
I forgot to say in my opinion.
Geeze, clumsy me
Back into the closet to sodomize my halo : )
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Golly, this has hydra'd. I don't think that Picasso can be held up as
> a romantically disinterested figure (as opposed, say, to Warhol),
> since he actively used his talent to make a fortune. What you're
> talking about is a commodification of perceived uniqueness that
> basically drives the art market. What Hirst has demonstrated is how
> manipulable those perceptions are, just like a stock market. I suppose
> that's a performance of a kind, but he's never produced anything that
> I want to spend time looking at. I think what you're all saying about
> Warhol could be much more profitably applied to Hirst.
>
> Neither is reproducibility a useful metaphor for "prostitution". (I'm
> afraid I find that metaphor offensive - for many reasons, in fact, but
> mostly because it's a metaphor that's absolutely blind to various
> workings of social power. Mark understood me, I think).
>
> I don't see any inherent virtue in poverty. It is a circumstance, that
> is all. In my experience of it, a stressful and difficult circumstance
> that in a capitalist society, where money is purchase, can erode the
> soul and body. I suppose it's useful to understand that, since it also
> makes you understand that they idea that suffering is good for you is
> complete bollocks. And I don't believe in the "pure" artist, who
> transcends all the mucky worldly dealings of the rest of us, and
> polishes his halo every day. I find that attitude as repellent as the
> strategist working on his revenue streams, since most usually it is
> dependent on unseen and unacknowledged Others.
>
> Both, somehow, miss the point.
>
> xA
>
>
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