Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/20/87)
Really-From: nessus (Doug Alan) > [Greg Taylor:] The key point here is that I do not believe that > we're simply dealing with a genius (person) and the product of their > genius (the LP) when we deal with art. Both of those two parties > are, at best, a kind of convenient shorthand for a very complicated > set of cultural, social, etc. transactions. I would agree that a work of art cannot be separated from its cultural context and still understood, but I maintain that there are geniuses who are able to absorb something from their culture and then using what they have absorbed are able to synthesize something that is emotionally or intellectually powerful to a significant portion of their culture. "It could feel like falling in love. It could feel so bad, but it could feel so good," |>oug