I like Michael's 5 stages scheme. Somewhere I have a "Pin the Tail on the Donkey" consisting of a large reproduction of a Van Gogh self portrait and several ears which can be pinned on by the blindfolded players. Cool, huh? That must be stage 7 or 8.
WC --- On Fri, 1/23/09, Michael Brady <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: The good sort of sentimentality > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 11:46 AM > On Jan 23, 2009, at 12:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > well, they've done a damn good job > sentimentalizing the Rothkos. > > There's probably a scheme, like the five stages of > grief, for a cultural endeavor to go from unknown, > unexpected, unwelcome, to understood and then made into > greeting cards sold in the museum gift store. Perhaps > that's the poster-child [!] of the commodifying of > experience and feelings, the museum gift shop, which I think > Barzun (among others) has already indicted. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [email protected]
