Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/11

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Subject: [Leica] Re: price of art prints (was re: kyle's fine art)
From: Allan Wafkowski <allan@sohogurus.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:35:02 -0500

Do what better? Pay people from the public coffer to do things no one in 
their right mind should even consider doing? Dung on canvas? Religious 
objects in urine? Value art by putting a price on it?

No--what you're saying makes no sense.

Allan


On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 11:51 PM, Tim Atherton wrote:
> N. America - actually that's wrong, Canada and the US - Mexico does this
> better than the both of them - are among some of  the worst of Western
> Nations for valuing and supporting their artists. The utilitarian view 
> of
> art that prevails here is one of the major factors in this.
>
> Mexico, Spain, France, Holland, Italy, Ireland even the UK all do this 
> far
> better than us.
>
> Unfortunately, a society which fails to value art lacks a soul - 
> something
> which is all too obvious if you look around.

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