At 10:57 am -0700 4/7/00, Devon Paulson wrote:
>Does it mean that he or she should do what the government tells him? Of
>course not. It's not selling out, or going corporate, bending to the man or
>kissing Uncle Sam's ass, it is simply a way that that particular artist
>wants to express his or her concearns.
well, here in this little oil country
unfortunately we spent the last 40 years
trying to "defend" something called "national culture"
against globalization. & they insist.
at last what we have is a fragmented culture
isolated & overstimated, groups of sacred cows in each town
telling lies each other about how big & succesful they are
is his antiglobalization goal.
all this groups depend on the state money & everything in art is done to
with aproval of bigger mandarines (with some rare exceptions: every
initiative in this "wrong way" is comdened to fail & disacredited his
autors)
i can said that the product of such squeme is not something important in
art, but a
big bunch of dishonest artist crying for the money of state each three months.
(including mediocres -the most- & those with big talent but little "guts")
...pez
