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Fine Art
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The economy functions strictly and instrumentally according to iron conventions, imposed unequally on nations by the great transnational economic bodies; it establishes hierarchies of wealth and power; it enforces on the vast majority of the world's inhabitants a timetabled and regulated working life, while consoling them with visions of cinematic lives given meaning through adventure and coherent narrative (in which heroes make their lives free precisely by breaking the rules), and with plainti
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― Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
― Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
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Maybe art’s just a mode of escapism, but I’ll take that. It’s certainly a lot cheaper (not to mention safer) than heroin. You can smack me up with art any day.
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― Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun
― Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun
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