Debra wrote:
>. Her efforts are in a
> completely different league than the Beatles. She's art; the Beatles are
> popular culture. The two can't be compared, and if they are, then the
> Beatles are the ones lacking in substance, enjoyable as their music is.
>
Hi Debra,
Your note was very interesting and I wanted to ask you about art vs popular
culture which you mentioned a few times. Are you saying that once a piece
of art becomes popular it ceases to be proper art or is somehow lacking in
substance ? I thought that kind of argument was over years ago. Artists
like Warhol, Lichtenstein, Blake etc embraced the frivolity of pop and rock
n' roll. Warhol wanted the banality of popular culture. Yoko is ok
but if you asked me to choose some pieces of "auditory conceptual art"
right now. I'd pick Heatwave by Martha and The Vandellas, In Dreams by
Roy Orbison and Since I Left You by The Avalanches. In truth I had no
choice about that last one as it's what's playing now.
Philip
