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- From: rmr@sgi.com (Robert M. Reimann)
- Subject: Re: support for the arts in the US
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 06:21:22 GMT
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- curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
- > bjones@denitqm.uswest.com (Brent Jones) writes:
-
- >>Also, I'll take "marginalised" art over institutional art any day. :-)
- >
- >Same here. A while ago I asked, rhetorically, "How many good writers
- >did the Soviet Union produce?" A few minutes later, I realized.
- >Pasternak... Rybakov... Solzhenitsyn...
-
- I wasn't going to say anything... :^)
-
- >Maybe the best way to create great art _is_ to institutionalize it. :-)
-
- Humor aside, the obvious fault in reasoning here
- is to equate financial support with "institutionalization",
- especially that of the character found in the late USSR.
- Are you therefore also against public funding of
- libraries, because of the power librarians are given
- over selection of titles?
-
-
- Robert.
-