Good comment, Kate. Thanks. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Thu, November 25, 2010 8:03:07 PM Subject: Re: "This study examines the process of commercialization of ... etc. But part of the fun is figuring out what people want in the way of pictures and then doing it better than they thought it could be done. The Dutch genre pictures would never have been painted if there hadn"t been a demand. You can say, well KIncaid gives them what they want-he gives them what they will settle for and takes advantage of their willingness to pay for the illusion of having what they want. He isn't doing it better than anybody imagined,he's getting over. He's commodification. And people should really read the book before going on with this-it is a history of pictorial trends in Dutch society and how well they sold. As a side note,for some reason the big kitchen and market paintings died and never became numerous unlike the tavern etc paintings. Kate Sullivan
