On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:03 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
Does that have something to do with this?: - General-interest magazines paid less attention to the lofty world people hoped to enter and started covering the readers themselves. The media segmented as each lifestyle niche got its own treatment. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/opinion/19brooks.html?ref=davidbrooks
