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Subject: 
Re: Swearing?
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Jan 2000 16:44:18 GMT
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mattdm@&AntiSpam&mattdm.org
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote:
Yikes!  We risk lumping The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in with Larry Flynt's
latest offerings if we hide behind the "make people think" shield with no
other back-up.

Possibly. "Makes people think" isn't the sole definition of art, though.
(See my earlier post.)

Part of the issue is that "what art is good art" (good for people, good for
society, good as art for its own sake, whatever) should be seperated from
"what is art".

--
Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       --->             http://quotes-r-us.org/



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(...) Yikes! We risk lumping The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in with Larry Flynt's latest offerings if we hide behind the "make people think" shield with no other back-up. Dave! (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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