[Ads-l] Quote: Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan (1967)

[Dan Goncharoff]

Isn't the Statue of Liberty art??

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 2:47 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > ...best woman in the world.
>
> A woman shouldn't be that cold.
>
> Otherwise, a similar comment is something like "Art is whatever somebody
> wants to call art."
>
> JL
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 6:44 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <
> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In 2019 the Italian conceptual artist and provocateur Maurizio
> > Cattelan used duct tape to attach a banana to the wall of an art
> > gallery. He dubbed the resultant artwork "Comedian".
> >
> > After Cattelan sold the quasi-sculpture for a lucrative price he was
> > sued by another artist who had previously taped a banana and an orange
> > to a green background. The presiding judge was inspired to refer to a
> > humorous definition of art from the 1960s: "Art is anything you can
> > get away with". The judge credited Canadian communications theorist
> > Marshall McLuhan with this definition.
> >
> > The Wikiquote webpage for McLuhan claims that this remark is in his
> > book "Understanding Media" (1964), but I accessed that book, and the
> > quotation was absent.
> >
> > Instead, the earliest close match I found appeared in the 1967 book
> > "The Medium is the Massage" by McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin
> > Fiore. The quotation was spread across five pages:
> >
> > [ref] 1967, The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin
> > Fiore, Quote Page to 132 to 136, Bantam Books, New York. (Verified
> > with hardcopy) [/ref]
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > Art is anything you can get away with.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > The photographs accompanying the statement showed a massive sculpture:
> >
> > [Begin excerpt]
> > "The biggest and best woman in the world," an 82-foot-long,
> > 20-foot-high sculpture, in Moderna  Museet, Stockholm. You can walk
> > around in her.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > The Quote Investigator article is here:
> > https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/08/10/art-anything/
> >
> > Feedback welcome,
> > Garson O'Toole
> >
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