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Миша Педан, 22.11.2011 01:11
"В защиту концептуализма"
Это страшное слово, часто употребляется на данном сайте, как синоним комерции и продажности в искусстве.
Как вам этот текст?

Art:
To justify artist's professional, parasitic and elite status in society, he must demonstrate artist's indispensability and exclusiveness, He must demonstrate the dependability of audience upon him, He must demonstrate that no one but the artist can do art.

Therefore, art must appear to be complex, pretentious, profound, serious, intellectual, inspired, skillfull, significant, theatrical.

It must appear to be valuable as commodity so as to provide the artist with an income.

To raise its value (artist's income and patron's profit), art is made to appear rare, limited in quantity and therefore obtainable and accessible only to the social elite and institutions.
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Артём Шульга, 22.11.2011, 03:21
"Это провокация?"
Нет, это провокация

Саша Курлович, 22.11.2011, 11:46 Миша, этот текст достаточно универсален, чтобы быть отнесённым к любому "изму".

Леонид Тугалев, 22.11.2011, 17:22 Как жаль, что не могу прочитать английского текста (транслит выдаёт нечто чудовищное)

Неуч, 11.12.2011, 13:57 "He must demonstrate that no one but the artist can do art".

Not necessarily. To be more correct, one should say:
He must demonstrate that the way he does art is unique, i.e. nobody but him can produce the result we see. As for the art, everybody else can do it, but generally in an inferior way. It holds true with few exceptions, i.e. other artists.