Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 03:32:54 -0400 From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Saul Ostrow) Subject: Re: make yourself at home > >You've really got a thing about art funding haven't you! Don't you >think the lack of govt arts funding would 'force arts onto the >marketplace where they could only survive by adopting its values' ? >(I just read this somewhere, but I'm not really interested in art >funding, I've got to write an essay on the avant-garde and by next >week.) Clement Greenberg in Avant Garde and Kitsch writes about the umbinical (sp?) cord of gold. To fund or not to fund is not just a cultural question but also a political one. Who do we want to be our patrons. Free market culture gave us the renaissance through to Pop, Govt support has given us? I can't quite figure out what it has given us. I know it has re-enforced the notion that art is educational, that it is a public service, that it is a potential form of mass entertainment, that it is institutionally dependent. On the other hand we all have to make a living some how and why not in the public employ. But this is neither here nor there, beecause I do blieve in funding not to artists but to organizations whose programs support art, dance and cultural literacy. This having been said and I know it can and probablely will draw some flack, ( I myself find it distasteful being on the same side , even if for different reasons, as Mr Brace, So instead I would like to find out instead what Hayward is going to say about the avant garde. --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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