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Re: Stepping on your own rake?

It was your response to Mr. Garvin's comments on what determines excellence that I was commenting on. If Mr. Garvin mistakenly took tinear's comments on the film as definitive when they were merely meant to be a personal opinion then why not just say that? Your response was about the topic of excellence v.taste. You seem to dispute the idea that in the end artistic excellence is a matter of popular "vote" amoung experts. I ask again if it isn't that then what determines objective artistic excellence? What makes one "vote" more significant and authoritative than a body of "votes?" If it isn't "votes" at all then what is it? Note that I am using your term "vote" in place of critical opinion. that's what we are really talking about, peoples' critical opinions and their objective merits. This isn't merely a challenge to you. I think it is a topic tht is complex and worthy of discussion. I' like you (I think) do believe there are some objective standards of excellence in art that trancend taste and individual opinions. I don't believe art is good just because some idiot or even a large group of idiots like it.


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