Art no competition (was: Re: Borges, Woolf)

[malignd at aol.com]

I agree that art isn't a competition, but really -- you don't make comparative judgments?  Do you not think Bach is a greater (whatever you mean by "greater") composer than, say, Pachelbel?  Picasso a greater artist than Jeff Koons?  Etc.  We can't easily define them, but I think we all agree that there are metrics of some sort or other -- Nabokov's tingling of the spine or ... whatever.  Why are you on the p-list and not the maeve binchy list?  (Just an example; don't want to pick unnecessarily on Maeve ...)  Or every single author's list?  You could cite personal preference, but I think you'd be dodging the point.



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From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 6:41 am
Subject: Art no competition (was: Re: Borges, Woolf)


              

      On 14.08.2012 21:14, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
      
    
    
            
art        isn't a competition - i don't care who wins the latest literary        pissing contest, or who did what first, i am interested in the        work
      
    
    
    Makes me think of Christoph Schlingensief who said "art does not    know any winners and so I call off this event right now", when he    was to proclaim the winner of the 'Publikumspreis der    Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst' in Berlin in September 2005 ("Kunst    kennt keine Sieger, also breche ich die Veranstaltung ab").
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Schlingensief 
    
    
  
 
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