The Boston Globe: Jeff Jacoby: Getting away with art

| | TrackBacks (0)

The Boston Globe: Jeff Jacoby: Getting away with art

"Either you are sophisticated or cynical enough to gush over the emperor's wonderfully postmodern and transgressive new duds, or you are one of those reactionary rubes who get all hung up on the fact that the emperor actually happens to be naked. If talent and skill aren't required to produce a work of art, if a striving for truth or excellence or beauty has nothing to do with artistic greatness, if craftsmanship and effort matter less than attitude and gimmickry - in short, if there are no standards, then why not fawn over an 'artist' who 'works with rubbish?' Why not bestow a prize named for J.M.W. Turner - the greatest landscape painter in English history - on a chucklehead who crumples sheets of paper and films people vomiting?"

Categories

0 TrackBacks

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: The Boston Globe: Jeff Jacoby: Getting away with art.

TrackBack URL for this entry: https://www.batesline.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3110

Contact

BlogAds

Support BatesLine

Show your appreciation and help fund hosting and research expenses:

Official PayPal Seal

Enjoy affordable and reliable hosting with Bluehost and support BatesLine at the same time -- click here!