XPost: rec.music.bluenote, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz   
   From: bornfeldmung@dentaltwins.com   
      
   JC Martin wrote:   
      
   > j_nscott@msn.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hi Steven,   
   >>   
   >> Consider this activity: You go to an exhibit, and a work there provokes   
   >> you to think about our relationship to the universe, and you like the   
   >> work, and consider it beautiful. Why shouldn't that be considered you   
   >> being entertained? Is it that "entertainment" connotes activities that   
   >> are in some way inferior to that activity?   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > When if I consider the work brutal, ugly, frightening and thought   
   > provoking?  Not all art brings me pleasure.  But all art certainly makes   
   > me think about my relationship with the universe.   
   >   
   > -JC   
      
   	I think the concept of understanding one's relationship to the universe   
   is at least as vague a concept as Mr. E.'s use of the word   
   entertainment--that is, unless you can flesh out exactly how Warhol's   
   soup cans places you in the universe.   
      
   Steve   
      
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