So? What's the message? Who can know what's in the heart of the art audience. It's just another crap statement from someone outside of art who can't appreciate it. Today, three different collectors told me how much they get out of my work they own, how much in enriches their lives. I don't think they are lying because they have no reason to, nothing to gain from it. And none of them mentioned what they paid for my work. I don't even remember what they paid. Sappy as it sound to numb audiences, some people value art highly, gain from it, and don't need to recall what it cost them. They don't care. Today I don't recall what I paid for my kids' school tuition. I care that they got a good education. It enriched them, and me, too. Some people love good music and will pay whatever the concert ticket costs and they don't recall what that cost was but they do remember good music. I detest the ideas that demean high minded values and degrade them as materialist self-love. If you care about civilization, the cynical view won't get you there.
wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, September 7, 2012 10:03:48 PM Subject: "The consumer is really worshipping the money that he himself has paid for the ticket to the Toscanini concert. He has literally 'made' the success which he reifies and accepts as an objective criterion, without recognizing himeself in it. But he has "The consumer is really worshipping the money that he himself has paid for the ticket to the Toscanini concert. He has literally 'made' the success which he reifies and accepts as an objective criterion, without recognizing himeself in it. But he has not "made it by liking the concert, but rather by buying the ticket." http://books.google.com/books?id=P9G4dn1oSWsC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=%22the+cons umer+is+really+worshipping+the+money+that+he+himself+has+paid+for+ticket+to+t he+Toscanini+concert.%22&source=bl&ots=ig8x_d7A6s&sig=emBH5hAs9NNgXaWvHBL2bm9 gf0c&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22the%20consumer%20is%20really%20worshipping%20the%20 money%20that%20he%20himself%20has%20paid%20for%20ticket%20to%20the%20Toscanin i%20concert.%22&f=false
