Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] But-ugly sculptures
From: "Alan Hull" <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:19:41 +0200

 Jim Brick said

>. Art
> is in the eye of the beholder. What is art to one person, is junk to
> another. That's why artists make a lot of money selling but-ugly
sculptures
> to city councils all over the US. And they then plant them out front
where
> no one can avoid looking at them. 

You nailed it Jim,
I was taking a break in the sun opposite a sculpture on the Eindhoven
campus, when I noticed the similarity of what was left of my sandwich to
that piece of art.  A few more nibbles and there it was ..  a 10,000 dollar
sandwich fragment.  

What gall must it take, to go to the Mayor with my half-eaten sandwich and
tell him that for only $10k I will build him a twenty ton replica and put
it on his lawn?

Alan Hull