Thanks. Chris. I'd like to step aside for a bit to share the spotlight with
others. However, later ...
Geoff C
From: "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Literary and graphic artists - cheerskep
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:06:25 GMT
What Cheerskep does (as playwright) is similar to what a commission
sculptor
or muralist does -- i.e. they are filling a public space so they are
required
to "maintain substantial attention to how your artistic product is likely
to
be received."
But there are - and have been throughout history - plenty of both literary
and graphic artists who have only been concerned with pleasing themselves
or a
very small circle of cognoscenti.
The great difference, nowadays, is that the literary arts have little that
resembles that great sociological phenomenon known as the "artworld" of
the
graphic arts.
BTW -- being our resident fan of socialist art (as well the art of every
other
oppressive regime throughout world history - including Nazi Germany and the
slave-trading state of Benin) -- I would question whether any poor results
were more the result of their requirements than of the failure of the
artists
involved to adapt to them.
I'm glad you've arrived here, Geoff -- and curious person that I am -- hope
that you'll eventually tell us more about your preferences in all these
arts.
(this is an aesthetics list, after all!)
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>That being said, I do feel more kinship with your perspective in
maintaining
substantial attention to how your artistic product is likely to be
received. I
wonder if some members of the public might feel that the lack of concern
with
public reception is a flaw in contemporary fine art. Still, I recognize the
deleterious impact of the requirement by the Russian communist regime of
socialist art.
Who knows the truth?
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