Submitted by Justin, Sep 2, 2007 12:03

Appreciating poetry for its shapes is a good article but all it does is illustrate what DuChamp did with a bicycle wheel and pisstrough. The zen and telecom book art is not poetry but an effort to get a gullible know-nothing bunch of illiterates to buy into crap that takes little effort to make and then convince them that they have invested in beauty. Gullible bunch of poor bastards! At least we could have the good sense to still insist that artists and poets have some sense of value and create something worth keeping. Most of the crap is purely euthenasia for a spiritually dead and emotionally uncultured mass of educated idiots who aresold on the hard sell of bulldusting pseudo-intellects and snake oil salesmen. The cheek to call it art even galls me. My biggest issue is what Warhol said - 'art is what you can get away with.' If we let these talentless monkey posteriors trick us into believing that they produce art, then anyone who buys into it should be bloody shot as a triator to good taste and sensibility. Then again, we live in a world where taste is the preserve of a minority who have enough class to remain understated and hence outside pop culture. My question is, given this trend, 'can we even connect with or appreciate beauty on an intimate level without prodding or sales hype?'

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