Well said, Stephen.
On 17 April 2010 01:42, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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> From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The Business of Poetry
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 4:40 PM
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> "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
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > "Business art is the step that comes after art."
> > "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art."
> > --Andy Warhol
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
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> >
> > The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye (downloadable and free) is @
> >
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
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> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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!
> >>
> >> 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....
> >>
> >> --
> >> have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog
> weird
> >>
> >> just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
> >>
> >> Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >
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