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...implies, by definition, a corollary lack of interest in children. There are many forms of narcissism, of course; one of the lesser arguments of militant non-propagationists has been that children are an ego trip, begotten for the pleasure of watching one's own little clone toddle around. But today having children often seems to have been trivialized to the status of a life-style -and an unacceptable one. The obsession with being young and staying young has led to the phenomenon of almost permanently deferred adulthood. "I know 50-year-olds who are still kids," says Social Analyst...
...student, I was greatly disheartened by Rockefeller's scheme to sell reproductions of his collection [Dec. 18]. I work hard on my original pieces. Yet how can I compete with timeless entities such as Rodin or Modigliani? These "clone"' collectors don't want art-they want status symbols. Why don't they buy a Mercedes instead? At least they can drive that...
...Rockefeller offerings are china, candlesticks and reproductions of other domestic artifacts, which hardly deserve all the indignation. But the issue is wider, and this cat, once out of the bag, will not depart. The catalogue of costly, inauthentic art looks like a portent of the future: the Clone Museum, successor to the Museum Without Walls. A new cultural industry is rising: the mass production of elaborate, high-priced copies of art objects. They are not to be confused with ordinary, reasonably priced reproductions, including posters, postcards and photos, which are not only defensible but useful; the new products are "luxury...
...every clone finds its target unerringly among those who would rather do a lace-doily imitation of the Sun King of Pocantico Hills than risk "mistakes" by developing their own taste...
...There may not be much wrong with such knick-knacks-as long as they don't become substitutes, in people's minds, for the real thing. Mechanical reproduction clumsily mimics but cannot replace the intimate spontaneity and directness of an artist's touch. The clone trade is to real art and its audience what Franklin Mint medals are to numismatists, or vinyl-morocco Great Books to bibliophiles...