[lbo-talk] artsy-fartsy

[B.]

In 1978, NME music writer Julie Burchill penned this
aphorism: The working class thinks most art is wank;
the upper class thinks wanking is art. Julie wrote
that in a  review of the "punk" film Jubilee. 

-B.

Michael Pollak wrote:

"With all due respect Woj, this has been pretty much
the definition of a philistine ever since Duchamp's
fountain (the 'my kid could do that' school of art
criticism).  With this definition you're throwing out
masterworks in just about every art movement of the
20th century."