The lesson here is that thinking about art is both topical and universal. We sometimes favor one and then the other point of view; rarely can we put them together sensibly. I stand by my comment below because in the topical sense it is true yet In the universal sense it is abhorrent and wishfully false. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 30, 2010 4:49:47 AM Subject: Re: REFINE SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:41 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > > How can there be an art criticism, vested with an aesthetic position, that > does not recognize the simple fact that art is for the few, the monied, the > aristocratic, the despotic? - *If it is art, it is not for all*. If it is for all, it is not art. Schunberg
