File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-06-16.223, message 157


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.




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