I read the item Aesthete refers to. What amazed me were the spam ads embedded into the very text of the silly little essay on abstraction. Is there any end to the creeping infection of commercialism? Maybe artist and writers should make deals to "brand" their work with ads. The movies have been doing that for 100 years. Maybe preachers should learn the trick, too. What a market opportunity....ads mixed in with Bible talk!
It's a delusion to think that art can rise above commerce or that any space remains for discourse and expression, for beliefs or intellectual inquiry that is free from the infection of material consumerism. Nothing, not even God, remains free from branding. Commerce trumps everything. Hell wins. WC --- aesthete aesthete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://buycomicshwbocsuv.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-understand-abstract-art. > html > _________________________________________________________________ > Make every e-mail and IM count. Join the im > Initiative from Microsoft. > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ > MakeCount
