From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 09/02/02-03:19:04 PM Z
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Jeff Buck wrote:
> Who knows what "art critics of the future" will think? That's why we have
> the future -- we don't know what it holds. A hundred and fifty years ago,
> Henry Taylor was the knighted Poet Laureate of England and dead even with
> Tennyson in public and critical regard. Heard of him? About the only
> reason I have is that he was incredibly handsome and Cameron took his
> portrait several times. Anyhow, who cares what the art critics of the
> future will think? Is Henry Taylor crap because the critics of this era
> think so? Why? Who are they? Finally, what future critics are we talking
> about? Those of ten years from now? A hundred years from now? A
> thousand? When? If five hundred, then why?
Well, Jeff, I was trying to be kind. To leave some wiggle room for Ansel
Adams as "artist." If we count just the critics of today, I think
the consensus would be "calendar artist," as I believe someone in this
thread already pointed out. I didn't coin the term.
J.
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