Hi Poet,
While this cad, (edit hehe, not really, just sounded fun) was having a glass of Cab, I read with much interest, in the August 13, 01, issue of "The New Yorker" an article, in the "The Art World Section" , called "Desert Songs" , (page 82). about an exhibit in Santa Fe, NM called "Beau Monde".. To quote:
"The curator of "Beau Monde" is the maverick art critic, theorist, and fiction writer Dave Hickey, who teaches at the the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. Hickey, who is Sixty-two years old has been an art dealer, a magazine editor......."
Going on, the article states,, "A romantic individualist and a philosophical pragmatist, Hickey espouses the oneness of all art whether high or popular, a field with room for both a Tiepolo and a Norman Rockwell"...
And finishing the article, a quote from Peter Schjeldal, the author, "Before we can usefully disagree about what we like in art, we need to reestablish, publicly, the dignity of liking. The importance of pleasure in aesthetic experience is so simple and self-evident."
It says it all IMO..
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