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I Agree
Reader comment on item: Beauty and Nausea in Venice
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 |
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