On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Chris Miller wrote:
So --- why not just rely on the marketplace to get artists together
with
people who enjoy their work ? Dealers/publishers know their customers
-- let
them decide what gets displayed or printed.
Except that ---- certain perverse individuals (like myself) want to
promulgate whatever taste we have.
Don't you know that perverse promulgation will grow hair on your palms?
Read Miller's statement carefully (no, don't *deconstruct it*, just
analyze it).
He doesn't want to rely on some imprecise mechanism ("the
marketplace") to "get artists together with people who enjoy their
work." No, that's too prosaic, too anonymous, too indefinite.
Miller wants to "promulgate," that is, to make up the rules for others
or to put a law or decree into effect. And what is it that he wants to
do the promulgating of? "Whatever taste we have"! Whatever. It doesn't
matter, as long as he gets to do his daily promulgating.
BTW, who is the "we" in this sentence? None other than "certain
perverse individuals" like Miller. In other words, he just wants to
depose those in power and replace them with himself or another
perverse person. Miller doesn't want to change the "institutional"
system he rails against. He just wants to run the show. He wants to be
the Artistic Promulgator, and, like Canute ordering the tide not to
advance on him, to change the path of history by fiat.
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Michael Brady
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