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To: Taro who wrote (343920)7/22/2007 4:31:11 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1574320
 
Without publicly funded art, we'd never have experienced the Piss Jesus.

en.wikipedia.org

Some art just requires public funding..



To: Taro who wrote (343920)7/22/2007 5:39:43 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574320
 
"So where is your rich man, who sponsored his art, without whom
- as a government art subsidies equivalent - he would never have produced anything??"

Now that is a straw man and you know it.

He probably would have produced something. Just not as much. In his case, he was in a Brotherhood, so he had time and access to materials that would have been more difficult if he had been, say, a cooper.