Is "Art" more than the physical image?
Here is an excerpt from Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thorton:
When I ask Poe what makes a good dealer, he leans back and thinks for a moment. "You have to have an eye - a savantish ability to recognize work that is symptomatic of an artist with real intelligence, originality, and drive." While artists tend to be critical of the notion, dealers and collectors usually revere a "good eye." The resolutely singular expression evokes a connoisseur with a monocle or a Cyclops with infallible instincts. While its opposite, a "good ear," is disparaged for being dependent on the opinions of others, an eye enjoys the thrill of recognizing something ineffable, picking the best artists and, from within those artists' oeuvres, the best work.
Hmmm- "picking the best artists" based on intelligence, originality, and drive? It's a business and the one who has the finance, the marketing and production working as a well oiled machine wins?
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