Re: As the commodification of art increases, isn't there a shift where the creative needs of the artist become subservient to what ultimately becomes the whims of the consumers/audience?

[joseph berg]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Michael Brady
<bradydes...@embarqmail.com>wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:22 PM, joseph berg wrote:
>
> > As the commodification of art increases,
>
> Is art in fact being "commodified," and if so, how can you measure it in
> order
> to say it is increasing? This is an unsubstantiated assertion.
>
> > isn't there a shift where the creative needs of the artist become
> subservient to what ultimately becomes the whims of the consumers/audience?
>
> Are you asserting that there is such a shift? Then say so, rather than
> insinuating it with a negative question.
>
> Where is this shift occurring?
> What are "creative needs of the artist"?
> How do the artist's "needs" become "subservient" to the "whims" of an
> abstract
> collective entity?
>

In the future, won't the following become a luxury of luxuries?:

- I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Pablo Picasso