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Ep 21 - What Is Art? (Tolstoy)

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The Art of the Wealthy Classes

The art of the wealthy classes is just typified by book of prize winners orange prize winners nobel prize winners experimental novels yeah long rambling novels the flenu where someone walks through town a complete nobody cataloging everything they see but with nothing to say it's boring. The entire artistic world of europe and america imitates these people suffering from erotic mania so if you skip on a little bit there's four main methods that a work of art can be artistic counterfeit fake art uh to us i break them down into one borrowing two imitation three effectfulness and four diversion um which i would i would actually rather than we get you know go deeper into it now because i like to keep

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