Re: [-empyre-] making a meta-living

[Paul Brown <paul@paul-brown.com>]

Alan - in an attempt to attract you out of your lurkership (or an
invitation to reply to me offlist) I'd be interested to know:  if you
don't believe in pure art (apropos my def. as art about art versus art
with some "non intrinsic" content) where/how do you categorise artists
like (for eg.) Albers or Max Bill?

> Just want to say I don't believe for a second in pure art, nor do I 
> think that art follows lineage necessarily at all. I also think a 
> hell of a lot of the art going on today in the galleries is terrific 
> and that competition helps make it so, whether online or off - and 
> for that matter, real and virtual are more or less smashing together.
>
> That said, I'm going back to silence - too many enemies on this list.
>
> - Alan
>
>
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