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Popularly accessible art can be funded by things like KS, or simply by the market more generally. Art that is not (currently) popularly accessible -- stuff that
by cyrus_ 15y ago
Popularly accessible art can be funded by things like KS, or simply by the market more generally. Art that is not (currently) popularly accessible -- stuff that is either at the frontiers, or is making a contribution that is not immediately evident to a lay person -- cannot. Is this kind of art valuable? Of course it is. Today's avante garde is tomorrow's pop art, just as today's cutting edge science is tomorrow's consumer technology (but not all of it.)
- liber8 15y agoWhere does this idea that art that is not "popularly accessible" cannot be supported by the market? Such art might not be supported by the mainstream or by the "lay person" as you call them, but those people do not make up the entirety of the market. For nearly all of civilized history there have been patrons of the arts. When did these people suddenly get removed from "the market"? (Also, note that if "avante garde" art was supported by the "lay people" [meaning it went mainstream], it would, by definition, cease being "avante garde")