tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17470944.post456501427144071371..comments2024-02-26T08:45:28.583-08:00Comments on Timeless - thebookmann - Feinin: Art Decadence - The King's sacrilegiously ScepterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17470944.post-41344764515278373132007-07-27T15:42:00.000-07:002007-07-27T15:42:00.000-07:00Well said indeed!Well said indeed!Hottie Hottiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03127198844316034575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17470944.post-14554391280616823182007-06-02T09:57:00.000-07:002007-06-02T09:57:00.000-07:00I know this is exactly the kind of outraged respon...I know this is exactly the kind of outraged response Hirst is aiming for in his skull sculpture, and of course it is the most childish and basic response that art can hope for, especially when it can and should aim for so much more. I’m reminded of the journalist who films a man committing suicide, not trying to prevent it in any way, and crying freedom of expression and the right to just get on with his job without interference. Truly horrifying in the deepest sense. Doesn’t Hirst wonder, at all, feel even a little guilty, to think that fifty million pounds could save at least one life somewhere on this poverty stricken little planet of ours, or even – what a cliché to think it! - make the world a better place? It seems to me not to be carrying it too far to say that he is no less guilty than the institutions – royalty, politics, whatever - he seeks to condemn or criticize – worst in fact, because as an artist, as a human being there are such things as integrity and compassion that we are supposed to have. The world should be appalled, not only at the direction art has taken, but at Hirst’s personal criminal insincerity and cynicism. And of course the dealers and entrepreneurs of the art world are equally to blame for supporting him in this awful endeavor - the huge funds undoubtedly used to secure or guard this work should at least be offered instead to support other and equally more deserving art that is sincerely created and not awash with the kind of doublespeak morality indulged in here. Truly the whole thing sends a chill down the spine – and if that’s the effect intended, Hirst should consider that the same effect could be more morally achieved in a lot of other ways – letting himself be filmed lighting a fire under his own arse, for instance!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com