The American artist is expected to be both a saint and a martyr. - TopicsExpress



          

The American artist is expected to be both a saint and a martyr. Operate outside the capitalist system and we’ll praise you for your creations, call your poverty a quaint kind of martyrdom that has nothing to do with us, and at the same time resent you for being holier than thou. Try to operate within the capitalist system and we’ll call you out as an imposter. this article is about musicians...but it can also be applied to visual artists (and, for that matter, to teachers, or anyone who does a difficult job and dares to suggest that it would be nice if they could make a living wage doing it)...this belief that all these people should just do what they do for the love of it is just ignorant and unrealistic. being able to eat regularly is a good thing :-)
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 17:50:27 +0000

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