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PERMANENT_GAP

                                             July 24, 2010


Some of Harvey Pekar's
theories about art:
                                          [link]

 o  Van Goh was considered crazy, then a genius. 
    Shostakovitch was considered crazy, and now           "Genius":
    they still don't want to hear it.                   essentially a
                                                          social status,
    Harvey Pekar called this the "permanent gap".         a matter of
                                                          reputation?
 o  Without public funding for the arts,
    all art becomes folk art after a
    while: everyone just wants the same
    thing, over and over.
       
    But public funding isn't a solution, because
    the judges are too stupid (faddish, dedicated
    to an "elite" in group?).
            
    To do anything new, you
    have to keep your day job.
                                      NOVELTY_AGAIN

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