Comments on: In Which We Wonder if There Is An Explosion of Artistic Output https://booksquare.com/in-which-we-wonder-if-there-is-an-explosion-of-artistic-output/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=in-which-we-wonder-if-there-is-an-explosion-of-artistic-output Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:26:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/in-which-we-wonder-if-there-is-an-explosion-of-artistic-output/#comment-22185 Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:26:39 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/01/17/930/#comment-22185 Yes, yes. I agree on the mass-distributed art. I really think that art is being shunted to the sidelines in education and it’s exploding in adults. We need to express. You see it in a lot of different ways (I recently learned that a good friend — the last person I’d ever expect — draws in his free time).

Now, if only art weren’t considered “easy”. It’s an outlet, but it’s also (depending on your goal) a discipline.

Thanks for the comment (and sorry for the delayed response…seriously, the cats want their own credit cards) — it made me think (always dangerous…).

]]> By: Sanguinity https://booksquare.com/in-which-we-wonder-if-there-is-an-explosion-of-artistic-output/#comment-20535 Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:39:24 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/01/17/930/#comment-20535 The world is full of artists. Participating in NaNoWriMo and other come-one-come-all writing projects, I see that lots of people out there have something they burn to get down on paper. Very few are interested in getting it published for a mass audience — they mostly want to show it to family, friends, and other participants. They tend to find huge satisfaction in even that modest distribution.

Mass-distributed art hasn’t been around for that long. Writing has been mass-distributed for quite a while now, but up until recently music was something that happened mostly within a local community. So was theater. So was storytelling. Art was something you did for your neighbors.

While mass-produced media means that we all get to enjoy much better art than we would have a century ago, it also means that we’re all far more stifled as artists — if you’re not as good as what’s being internationally distributed, the message goes, you have no business participating. Personally, I applaud whenever someone decides to create anyway. There’s joy in that act, whatever your skill level.

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