It is ironic that the harridan who harangues us about how the
institutions of the art world--the evil art professors and evil
curators and evil museum directors--are unwelcoming to "traditional
genres" of art nonetheless wants to see landscapes (of the European
tradition, mind you, not mere pencil drawings or Pop Art things) in
those institutions
That's the textbook definition of the institutional theory of art. He
extols an aesthetic-beauty criterion, but when it comes right down to
it, he wants to sees that criterion endorsed by the big museums--not,
btw, by the provincial museums and other small-beer places, but by the
big, important ones, the trend-setters, the institutional leaders.
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Michael Brady
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