{"id":1672,"date":"2012-08-07T23:02:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2012-08-07T23:06:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T23:06:37","slug":"robert-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Robert Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/books-and-arts\/105862\/the-decline-the-city-mahagonny\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1674\" title=\"hughes_2302291i\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hughes_2302291i-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hughes_2302291i-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/hughes_2302291i.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAlthough art\u00a0has always been a commodity, it loses its intrinsic value and its social use when it is treated only as a commodity. To lock it into a market circus is to lock people out of the contemplation of it.\u00a0This inexorable process tends to collapse the nuances of meaning, and visual experience generally, under the brute weight of price.\u00a0It is not a compliment to the work.\u00a0If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts and then hidden in storage, what would happen to one\u2019s sense of literature\u2014the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even better:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Cultural Cringe is the assumption that whatever you do in the field of writing, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, dance, or theater is of unknown value until it is judged by people outside your own society.\u00a0It is the reflex of the kid with low self-esteem hoping that his work will please the implacable father, but secretly despairing that it can.\u00a0The essence of cultural colonialism is that you demand of yourself that your work measure up to standards that cannot be shared or debated where you live.\u00a0By the manipulation of such standards, almost anything can be seen to fail, no matter what sense of finesse, awareness, and delight it may produce in its own setting.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert Hughes<\/p>\n<p>1938-2012<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cAlthough art\u00a0has always been a commodity, it loses its intrinsic value and its social use when it is treated only as a commodity. 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