Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOOKING TO BUY some art work? You want a Picasso? It's yours. Well, sort of. Would you believe a very good copy...
...culture can now turn art into a "reproducible commodity." Nelson Rockefeller pushed the ability to copy art into a $4 million investment. Several weeks before he died, he mailed more than 500,000 catalogs to an upper middle-class audience he hoped would splurge for one of his 118 high-quality reproductions, ranging in price from a $65 teapot stand to a $7500 bronze statue...
...critics question these reproductions as possible aesthetic ripoffs that don't even deserve to be considered art. They argue that reproductions have nothing to do with the "experience afforded by a genuine work of art." Reproductions may serve as aids to memory, as "educational tools," but they are "momentos of experience," far below the work itself in merit. To claim that these reproductions may function as equivalents of the artist's own work, critics suggest, is a "corruption of taste." By implication, these reproductions demean the artist's own work...
...forewarning, the copy would give him the same "experience" as the original. It is the critic's bias against the reproduction that somehow makes it "worse." If the reproductions offer the same experience as the original, why shouldn't they be considered worthwhile? For centuries artists have reproduced their art--engravers like Albrecht Durer and William Blake made rough woodblocks of their originals and printed dozens of copies to sell. They certainly didn't consider it demeaning...
...what people pay for when they buy a record from someone who poses as a "rock and roll star"-someone who even sings a cover of the old Bryds track "So You Wanna Be a Rock and Roll Star" on Wave. She tries to elevate rock stardom to high art, and then drops rock music itself as though it were a mere superfluity...