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".
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Fri, 4/16/10, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: Re: The Business of Poetry
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Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 4:40 PM
"Money is a kind of poetry", said Our Wallace Stevens.
I'm not against making money. One needs to survive.
But I am against that kind of language.
xA
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> "Business art is the step that comes after art."
> "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art."
> --Andy Warhol
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> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 12:23 +1000, Alison Croggon wrote:
>> > The Business of Poetry - Unleash the power of language to create many
>> > streams of revenue!
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>> The sad thing about the facebook blurb is that it is so much what life
>> is like... like I need to get abn or should I go the hobbyist route....
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>> have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird
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>> just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
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>> Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
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