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Old 07-06-2015, 09:51 AM   #19 (permalink)
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This is the kind of pretentious nonsense that annoys me about art. Art is what the artist says it is? So if I take a dump on a canvas and then say it represents the urban alienation of inner city tenement dwellers, that's art, is it? Jesus preserve me. Be honest Frown: you only think this is art cos Cage did it. Anyone else and you'd be the same as most of us, thinking it was a blank canvas.


Though if somebody had come out with that piece I wouldn't refuse to call it art. That's far more pretentious than any piece you might find yourself scoffing at.
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