Wednesday, June 18, 2008

ranking the arts

The lowest forms of art are collage, haiku, and pornography. The highest forms of art are film and pure mathematics.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:59 AM

    huh?!

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  2. This post belongs in the same genre as Michael Berube's "Arbitrary but fun judgments"

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  3. If I write a haiku about porn and collages, does that raise the level of artfulness, or just plummet it into the bowels of art?

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  4. Ooh, it pushes you way down. It will probably be fun. I collage made out of pornography and haiku would also be good.

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  5. Thanks Rob, you're the inspiration for Poetry Friday this week!

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  6. An attempt at a porno-collage haiku:

    Lascivious girls
    glued artlessly to cardboard
    sublime tawdriness.

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