I Agree :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Brian Yoder (United States), Dec 29, 2017 at 00:36

I agree, but it's a lot more than Venice. Fortunately, there are increasing numbers of artists, art schools, art lovers, and arts businesses out there setting things right in this area. Check out http://www.artrenewal.org

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Daniel Pipes replies:

I am impressed by Fred Ross' philosophy of the Art Renewal Center.

Of many powerful passages, this one especially caught my eye:

Most people do not feel themselves knowledgeable enough to know what has or does not have value, when it comes to pocket books, Persian carpets, or wrist watches, and much less so with works of art. This is "prestige-suggestion". Even if their instincts are to reject something, they keep silent lest they expose themselves to ridicule for being considered ignorant, tasteless or out-of-touch, succumbing to "social pressure".

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1	La biennale di Venezia, ossia la fabbrica del nulla [53 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Carlo Brozzi	Apr 4, 2022 08:07	279621
	Stalinist-style buildings [114 words]	Edoardo	Jan 29, 2018 07:34	242012
	Perspicacious perspectives! [4 words]	Rachamim Freer	Jan 12, 2018 17:14	241840
1	Congratulations for your intervention [24 words]	Georges Brandstatter	Jan 7, 2018 12:56	241800
	La biennale di Venezia, ossia la fabbrica del nulla [30 words]	Carlo Brozzi	Apr 22, 2022 08:04	241800
	Romanticizing the Italian Renaissance [67 words]	François Gravel	Jan 2, 2018 12:46	241741
	All too true [25 words]	Leslie Shaw	Dec 29, 2017 04:02	241703
3	I Agree [34 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Brian Yoder	Dec 29, 2017 00:36	241700
1	Evelyn Waugh was right there... [24 words]	Maria Meylikhova	Dec 29, 2017 00:30	241699
	Art [51 words]	Glenn Curtam	Dec 28, 2017 16:26	241695
1	Nausea at this show, yes, but 1910 is too early [122 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Malcolm	Dec 28, 2017 14:40	241694
1	Art used to be about the magic and skill in the execution [46 words]	Anon	Dec 28, 2017 12:58	241693
1	Artists as tradesmen [65 words]	Barbara Schmidt-Runkel	Jan 3, 2018 08:46	241693
	Irony - Stalin & Hitler's Artistic Tasts [316 words]	Ludvikus	Dec 28, 2017 12:31	241692
1	Sadly provincial [127 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Vadim Draluk	Dec 28, 2017 12:08	241691
2	away from the public eye [103 words]	rw	Dec 29, 2017 04:25	241691
	The mentality surrounding culture after the horrors of the 20th century--thoughts of two masters [652 words]	Rizhulka	Jan 1, 2018 11:53	241691
	Thanks [17 words]	Ornella	Dec 28, 2017 12:02	241690
	Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson [16 words]	Alvin Samuels	Dec 28, 2017 11:59	241689