Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right on. Finally some sense of history. - - Phong B. D. Colen wrote: > > Allow me to throw a rotten tomato into this discussion and suggest that > self-promotion has been an important aspect of the successful artists > repertoire not for the last several decades, but rather for the last > millennium. Do you really think that the successful artists of the > renaissance weren't inveterate self-promoters? Obviously the > self-promotion took different forms - sucking up to rich princes, > sleeping with rich princesses, etc., but it's always been part of the > game. Virtually any artist who wanted to sell work in his or her > life-time, rather than wait to be discovered after death, had to be a > self-promoter. > > B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html