Re: artists as outsiders

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 2:37 PM -0800 11/22/04, scott hansen wrote:
>the debate of artists as outsiders was tackled back when i was in grad 
>school,
>the debate is: are artists outside of society or are they a part of 
>society?
>and the debate continues w/ are artists influenced by the goings on 
>in the world (influence from outside/external)
>or are they the beacons from which change comes (somewhat internal, 
>and from this comes the debate of the avant garde, the forerunners 
>who change all, and from which most take 10 yrs to catch up to)
>there's not really an answer, it's a bit of both, stuff comes in, 
>then goes out and becomes a cycle,

All of the above.
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