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Modern art seems to be a pretty good racket

 
  

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higuita
17:02 / 21.06.01
If nothing else, the previous post holds the record for most thought expended by me on Barbelith.
Basically, I suppose the point is - to sleepydown beds, they were just making a bed, whereas Tracey Emin was making a statement utilising a bed which someone else happened to make.
There is, I believe, an ancient tradition of artists putting out apprentice's work as their own.
The difference is, some of it is good (some of Warhol's production line) and some of it is just talentless arse, which makes people feel ripped off.
Performance art? Bollocks more like.
[I'm sure there may be a good argument for some of it, but it just makes me baity and gives me the urge to shout 'Balls! Balls! Balls!]
 
 
Floating Point
13:30 / 29.07.01
Once an idea is represented by a physical form, the representation becomes a commodity, and can be sold and marketed in the same way as a hamburger or a pair of trainers. If the idea is powerful enough, and has been communicated effectively in the physical work, then it shouldn't matter how the work is distributed.
Those who talk of the importance of 'original' works of art being superior to 'reproductions' seem to be missing the point: even the 'original' is merely a reproduction of a concept in the artist's mind, ans should not be accorded so much reverance in this particular
 
 
Floating Point
16:35 / 29.07.01
...context.
 
 
mondo a-go-go
15:04 / 03.08.01
quote:Originally posted by Cop Killer:
I just want money to get tattooed and go to Graceland, and this whole working thing is for the birds...


hey, them's two of my "things to do before i die" as well.

i'm not adding anything to the discussion, am i?
 
 
Saint Keggers
01:27 / 17.08.01
Is anyone here actually in the field?
 
 
methylsalicylate
17:09 / 18.08.01
...not as an artist, but as a gallery manager (once upon a time). so in the field but tangentially.

the earlier mentioned 'my five-year old coulda done that' reaction was... rife, to say the least. and i usually held my temper. but one person really put me over the edge - asking how much a sculpture cost, &c. when he declared, angrily (as if i was at the very moment slipping ten thousand out of his pocket), 'i coulda done that,' i reacted as any person would have done.

i told him to go ahead, and when he was finished, if it was of merit, we'd be happy to represent him.

unsurprisingly he never came back.
 
 
Saint Keggers
17:23 / 18.08.01
Its stories like that that make my day. Its sooo damn easy to say "thats crap! I could shit better stuff than that"..if that were the case than art wouldnt be worth anything seeing as how everyone could do it, the marketplace would be flooded.

Although I'm really suprised he never came back..how odd.
 
 
Cop Killer
20:37 / 19.08.01
I woulda come back, but then again, I wouldn't ask how much a sculpture was that "I coulda done," basically, cuz I would.
 
 
sleazenation
21:08 / 19.08.01
The racket isn't that anyone can make art its that so few people do.
 
  

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