On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/05/2010, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Shaker furniture is still crafts, a high level of crafts but still crafts. >> To call them art debases them. To display shaker furniture in glass cases >> and not use it for their intended purpose misses the point. The original >> makers would be appalled. > > I wonder if Picasso would be thrilled or appalled to learn that a > single painting of his making fetched a cool $A116.2 million,<snip>
He'd be appalled that ~he~ didn't make that profit... ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
