quoted 13 lines "Art worldlings regarded popularity as skill's live-in slut. Popularity> "Art worldlings regarded popularity as skill's live-in slut. Popularity
> meant shallowness. Rejection by the public meant depth. And truly hostile
> rejection very likely meant greatness. Richard Serra's "Tilted Arc," a
> leaning wall of rusting steel smack in the middle of Federal Plaza in New
> York, was so loathed by the building's employees that 1,300 of them,
> including many federal judges, signed a petition calling for its removal.
> They were angry and determined, and eventually the wall was removed. Serra
> thereby achieved an eminence of immaculate purity: his work involved
> absolutely no skill and was despised by everyone outside the art world who
> saw it. Today many art worldlings regard him as America's greatest
> sculptor."
> Substitute, say, IDMers for art worldlings, and your favorite obscurist
> act for Serra, and reread.
substitute whatever comittee got serra to build that for another formed
of employees from the building itself, & enjoy your new, possibly
obscure, sculpture.
~ david
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