Ever study the Renaissance art culture? Or the 17, 18, 19 C art cultures? Whoever writes this drivel is just ignorant. It comes from the philosophy that proclaims the present as the handbasket to hell and the past as earthly paradise. That allows anyone to set up fake contrasts between today and yesterday that always end the same. Today is awful. Yesterday was great. Right. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 3:10:57 PM Subject: "The social structure that connects artists no longer resembles a secret revolutionary cell, where each member must be vetted and constantly risks expulsion. Today it is more like a nightclub, where admission depends on a doorman with a guest list in http://escapingartist.com/?p=3632 "The social structure that connects artists no longer resembles a secret revolutionary cell, where each member must be vetted and constantly risks expulsion. Today it is more like a nightclub, where admission depends on a doorman with a guest list in hand and an eye for mediagenic personalities. Entry depends less on ones art than on the context in which it appears, on your place in the social network."
