Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/30/00 12:45:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pjstamos@hotmail.com writes: << Despite the fact that the causal chain leading to the latter's subjects may be more circuitous, only a mad few would presume to have told Bacon what and whom to depict. Counterexamples abound perhaps, but at the risk of conflating whether a work is successful with its right to exist. >> I'm no historian, but the thought raises its ugly head that various monarchs, the Church of England, Oliver Cromwell, numerous private patrons and the public have at various times in British history constituted some of those unenlightened arbiters of propriety, morality and, alas, aesthetics. I'm not saying they were right, you understand... Joe Sobel