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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (8336)	9/7/2001 5:42:40 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

re: art snobbery>> slate.msn.com The art world, through a masterful manipulation of intellectual insecurities, has made itself largely immune to real criticism for the past 30 years. Its standard dismissal is: People have doubted the value of contemporary art since the beginning. And that's true. The 20th-century avant-garde, by definition, depended on confrontation with the bourgeoisie. Even Impressionism, which can now seem as banal as a Hallmark card, caused quite a sensation when it first came on the scene. But there are two major differences today. One, it's not just the bourgeoisie who's failing to grasp why anyone would pay $29,900 for Tom Friedman's Styrofoam cup with dead ladybug. It's also sophisticated, often liberal, "cultured" folk who enjoy edgy work in music, films, and theater and would like to do the same with art. And two, most 20th-century work that's deemed classic today was appreciated by these types of sophisticates shortly after an initial alienation. This is far from the case today. How did we get here and, more important, how do we get out?