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Peter Wisse:
>Couldn't it be, that Cage is just poking fun at us, and is laughing
>his head off, because all those connoisseurs of the arts are taking it
>seriously, are explaining to each other in their argot of the arts the
>profound meaning of 4 minutes of nothing!
Cage has said many times that it's not 4 minutes of nothing, although he
had a wonderful sense of humor. And he had a serious point.
>One encounters the same in the visual arts, consider a painting consisting
>only of a totally blue canvas, the incrowd call it Thrilling, and think
>that they told us anything useful,
Is this a real painting? Have you seen it?
>instead of conceding that it is all rubbish, but you can't concede such a
>thing if you are an Art Critic.
Of course you can, and critics do it all the time.
Steve Schwartz
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