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...between avant-garde art and the general public. Consequently it set in motion enormous changes in the art market and in public attitudes toward the new. It was art about consumption, and it sat up and begged to be consumed. It also fed back, with incredible speed, into the domain of popular culture -- partly because it was so easily, and at times misleadingly, reproducible. (An early Lichtenstein like Masterpiece, 1962, inflates with complications when liberated from a comic-strip frame; reproduced in print, it collapses back into one again...
...landscape of mass media presents no challenges to the artist: it is sterile now and incapable of a fresh thought or an authentic feeling. Better real ads and comics than exhausted "fine" art about them. That is one reason why our fin-de-siecle, at least in the domain of the visual arts, is turning into such a cultural fiasco...
Spain was establishing what historian J.H. Plumb calls "the greatest empire since antiquity." This modern empire was built, as Plumb also notes, on the basis of medieval theology. Yet much of Europe and most of the New World would become the domain of Charles V, and then of Philip III, making the next hundred years the Spanish Century...
Needless to say, these people belong at home making afghans for their grandchildren and not out hiring hit-men to kill their son-in-laws or their daughters' lovers. Snuffing out an enemy should remain the domain of organized crime. It is no world for the average American to enter...
...used to be the sole domain of shadowy, underworld Mafia-types, but not anymore...