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Ethan Kaplan, who is the vice-president of technology at Warner Brothers Records, wrote a long and thoughtful post today about the value of art, and how we as a society need to think long and hard about how we value art — including how (or if) we are prepared to pay for it &%
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1 year ago
1 year ago
Off the top of my head, great artists motivated by making money - and not just a small sinecure of a living either - include Pope, Dickens and Scott. And for Pope especially financial independence meant intellectual independence.
1 year ago
Pope are good examples. But we got a fair bit of good art out of them
anyway, despite their focus on making a living, right? Not sure what
that proves. I would respond in more depth, but I have to go and do
some hackwork :-)
1 year ago
It's all moot anyway since it turns out what Kaplan was really complaining about was NEA funding which is boring old kulturkampf stuff and certainly not as philosophical as it first appeared to be :-(
1 year ago
think Ethan's concerns are much broader than just getting some
government funding.
1 year ago
That said I'm still sympathetic to his changed/clarified point - I get the same way when, i.e., people talk about education tech without considering underlying educational principles.