[lbo-talk] Questions from before the Global Minotaur...

[Carrol Cox]

Jordan Hayes

And this is different from the time, of, say, Caravaggio?

Artists have always been dependent on patrons, this is nothing new.

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Indeed. Wojtek should read the incredibly obsequious letter Bach wrote to
the King of Prussia. The complaints about what we now call "commercialism"
go back to the early 18th-c. (To some extent to the early 17th-c., but they
reach Wojtek's level of complaint by the early 18th.)

Carrol