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                                             June 10, 2020

Luc Sante quotes Glenn O'Brien, late in his life:

  "Advertising could take up the former causes
  of art-- philosophy, beauty, mystery, empire."

Luc Sante then immediately goes on to present a
contradictory attitude from Glenn O'Brien, on an      You might try to resolve
earlier occasion:                                     the contradiction: perhaps
                                                      O'Brien was one of the
  "He felt that Barbara Kruger's work, in which       many who allow no place
  she employed advertising techniques to highlight    for morality in art?
  social and cultural contradictions, was merely
  inferior advertising: 'There are no ethics in       But to say that there are
  fashion.  There are no ethics in magazines.         no ethics in philosophy
  There are no ethics in advertising.'"               would seem peculiar.

                                                          ("Whatever wins the
                   (It would seem to me that              argument, baby."?
                   that's one of the points that          All philosophers
                   Barbara Kruger was making.)            are sophists.)





  The phrase "bring home the bacon" evidently
  recurs throught Glenn O'Brien's writing: "Why
  don't [many] publications allow criticism of
  fashion?  Because fashion brings home the
  proverbial bacon, Osbert."


  Glenn O'Brien was not the sort to worry
  much about commerce corrupting art.



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