On Aug 23, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> > What Hughes was really referring to there was the depraved
>> culture of > the 1980s art market. Which is true, but that whole
>> scene is kind of > marginalized here now.
>> I sorta miss that cultural depravity - it was sorta fun. Now, what
>> do we have?
>
> A 100 times more of it with less to-do? Attitudes toward porn have
> become so much more permissive in the last 25 years that Koons and
> Ilona could barely get noticed today, never mind make a splash.
No, I meant that 80s art scene. Julian Schnabel and all those hot dogs.
Keynes said that profit inflations were a great time for culture - an example he gave was Elizabethan England. 1982-2005 was a great profit inflation. What'd we get?
Doug