Art is like God/s, eternity, heaven, hell, and all the other concepts that can be formulated in language but can''t be proven. God is what is said about the concept. Ditto with art. etc. Scary and disappointing, maybe, but what else can we say? Art is what is said about it even tough the IT is undefinable and unproven. A necessary delusion? Who can say? wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 3:15:49 AM Subject: Re: Can art exist without authority? On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:16 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:08 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> - *Good art weathers* the ages because once in so often a man of >> intelligence commands the mass to adore it. >> >> *Ezra* Pound >> > > > Without authority, won't the bad eventually push out the good? > > Also, without authority to serve as gatekeepers, won't the field of hopeful wannabe's become so huge that it will become more important for them to do whatever it takes to stand out rather than to do quality work thereby making style more important than substance?
