Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> 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 Hmm.. the knee jerk reaction - unfortunately Alan you prove my point. This is where people of many other nations look at N. America and shake their heads. In many places "spending money out of the public coffer on art and artists " as you put it, is seen as a worth while investment and perfectly normal. I doubt you'll ever agree with me on this, so it's probably better just to differ. tim > 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. > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html