Flaskaland
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Saturday, October 19, 2002
A book review on William Gaddis looks at "What is Art worth in an age of indifference".
"In an age of mass marketing, art degenerates into trivial entertainment, and the public is more interested in the artist-as-celebrity than in the art he or she creates. The speaker detects a connection between the increasing complexity of machines and the increasing inanity and coarseness of public taste."
There's a lot more than that in this lucid but strangely disturbing article, including the moral of why it's better to tango. ¶ 10/19/2002 02:19:00 PM
"In an age of mass marketing, art degenerates into trivial entertainment, and the public is more interested in the artist-as-celebrity than in the art he or she creates. The speaker detects a connection between the increasing complexity of machines and the increasing inanity and coarseness of public taste."
There's a lot more than that in this lucid but strangely disturbing article, including the moral of why it's better to tango. ¶ 10/19/2002 02:19:00 PM
Friday, October 18, 2002
A member of the target audience dissects the cover letter accompanying a review copy of the CD.
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Wednesday, October 02, 2002
"In almost any era, the sheer mass of bad or mediocre work tends to dwarf the good or great works. This can lead us to assume that the past was somehow better, since we kept only the best parts and threw out the crap." Why writing about music can be an impossible task. ¶ 10/02/2002 08:48:00 AM
