And Poetry occupies one with padded walls.
On 17 April 2010 16:51, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The room of Art has many mansions.
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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.
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> > And that leads to the question of how, as audience to all kinds of art,
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> > cut through the economic bullshit & see what actually does the 'work of
> > art.'
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> > 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
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> >> which Hirst and his 'creative' team of financial advisers have concocted
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> >> 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
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> >> spend 30K plus a year to send a kid thru an MFA program. Or wondering
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> >> 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".
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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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