Robertson Davies: "What I mean when I say art is aristocratic is that it is
selective. It's not a mass thing. There never is a mass art that lasts very
long or explains very much. But I don't mean aristocratic in the sense that
it's produced by high-born people for high-born people. I just mean it's
produced by special people for people who can understand."
Geoff C
From: "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: "Free Market Art" and otherwise
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:51:24 GMT
Most undervalued American art today?
I would have said bronze figures from any period -- most of which sell for
less than the current cost of casting them - but I really have no idea
whether
the auction value of this stuff will improve in anyone's lifetime. That's
something for a professional dealer to answer -- and none of them seem to
promoting this kind of product.
On the other hand -- I have recently seen dealers promoting the reputations
of
selected artists from the 1930s American Scene and 1950s non-expressionist
abstraction -- so it looks William is right. The prices on these things
are
still rather low (hardly enough to support a living artist) -so maybe these
genres are currently a good buy.
But dare we ask what kings of things are aesthetically, rather than
monetarily
undervalued ?
Is such a question possible ? And who would be qualified to answer it?
Wouldn't this be one of the jobs of the art critic?
And yet -- here is how the art critic of the Chicago Tribune answered the
question : "What now constitutes quality in contemporary art?"
"the dominant institution of our time, the financial institution, defines
artistic quality more practically and nakedly than any institution
concerned
with a life of the spirit or mind: In the 21st Century the finest
contemporary
art is the art that makes the most money"
So whatever happened to those institutions "concerned with a life of the
spirit or mind" ? They seem to have had some importance in the past.
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