Aurelia wrote: >Dear Devon -- I think that long before we can find buyers for recently-made (contemporary?) lace, we have got to educate our public about the artistic value of lace; and that thread is just as interesting and beautiful as paint or marble. When the public has got that idea into its head, it will put its hand into its pocket as willingly for a stunning piece of contemporary lace as it does at present for modern paintings and sculpture...
I think that may be the crux of the matter, Aurelia: the fact is that ordinary people do *not* buy original paintings or piceces of sculpture any more than they would buy lace at the price we would want to pay. Rich people and "cultivated" people buy those things, either because they have the money and want to invest, or because they can appreciate the work they are buying. It's those people we have to educate, not the general public, who is quite as happy with a reproduction of David "made in Taiwan" as they would with the original (probably happier, actually, because it doesn't cost as much...) Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, where it's still raining on and off (on at weekends and off while I'm working :-)) Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
