Showing posts with label art theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art theory. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2013
Why high culture is always counterculture, but not vice versa
Tucked inconspicuously in the back of The Mencken Chrestomathy, in a section titled...
How to profit from the dollar-standard in the arts
Heaps and heaps and heaps of paper, and sitting atop one heap for the longest time, Hilton Kramer's The Revenge of the Philistines, subtitled: Art and Culture 1972-1984.
On the pretext of attacking and subduing the heap, I grab it and toss it onto my "immediate" heap of supposedly high-priority stuff. Neither as decisive or shrewd a move as I'm trying to make it...
On the pretext of attacking and subduing the heap, I grab it and toss it onto my "immediate" heap of supposedly high-priority stuff. Neither as decisive or shrewd a move as I'm trying to make it...
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