File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9903, message 36


Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 02:23:40 +0000
From: "Gerald O'Connell" <goc-AT-gacoc.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: problematic question



In message <5D5C5C8C3A41D211893900A024D4B97C40E60A-AT-md.facstaff.oglethorp
e.edu>, "Lowther,John" <JLowther-AT-facstaff.oglethorpe.edu> writes
>what's happening that seems New to anybody out there ?
>& of course i see the absurdity of the question at multiple levels
>but given the TO line i'm addressing a pretty diverse crowd
>who's seen something 
>               (in any art media)
>                               that struck them as New, Different, etc ???
>& then, if you cd...
>tell us about it
>thanx
>)L
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At any given point, maybe about 1% of 1% of what is being produced is
good enough to stand the test of time, and to be acknowledged
subsequently as representing a genuine development of what had gone
before. Both history and statistical probability are stacked against you
in any quest to satisfy both a craving for novelty and a search for
significance amongst the contemporary output.


Gerald O'Connell

http://www.gacoc.demon.co.uk/


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