> see, in my efforts to become cultured, I have asked you wankers over and
> over again, how on earth do you know what Capital A Art is anyway. And it's
> not just you, but the folks with art and lit backgrounds at the Pulp
> Culture list: everyone who's ever insisted that there is such as thing as
> timeless Art or even hinted at it. The best answer I've ever gotten is
> something stupidly pithy like, "It speaks to a universal
> experience." Whatev. I think people who say such things are utterly full
> of shit. Art is what people define as art and as andie suggests, to be seen
> as Capital A art, there always had to be gatekeepers to define what belongs
> and what doesn't: A supremely human endeavor and certainly nothing etched
> into the universe as Essence.
Yup. There's a good book that's makes this argument among others: "What Good Are the Arts?" by John Carey.
-Alex
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