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"All art is utterly useless" - Oscar Wilde
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Mark Rendle
rendle99@hotmail.com
"Jasper Janssen" <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote in message
news:38764671.53505388@lugnet.com...
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 17:25:13 GMT, "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com>
> wrote:
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> > Boy-oh-boy! I can't tell you how delighted I am to read that! I am _sick • to
> > death_ of that Postmodernist "all is art" nonsense! Such a definition seems
> > to imply that anything requiring or allowing interpretation is art, and is by
> > extension roughly equivalent to saying that nothing is art.
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> Yup. There is no useful definition of art. "All is art" or "none is
> art" are no less useful than any others you care to offer.
>
> Jasper
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| Mark Rendle wrote in message ... (...) This is basically what I said in my post concerning art and artwork. Perhaps there is a more suitable word for my definition of the word art - anything a man creates. If so, then that eliminates the need for (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Yup. There is no useful definition of art. "All is art" or "none is art" are no less useful than any others you care to offer. Jasper (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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