Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Settling the JSB/KB controversy once and for all Message-ID: <398@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 10:34:33 EDT Article-I.D.: mhuxr.398 Posted: Sat Aug 17 10:34:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 05:25:10 EDT References: <1446@pyuxd.UUCP> <387@mhuxr.UUCP> <1455@pyuxd.UUCP> <391@mhuxr.UUCP> <4982@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 11 > Marcel, does this mean that a great artist isn't great if they go > unrecognized, and thus have little influence on others? Hogwash! Total > and complete! So how would you know that artist was great if he/she was so unrecognized? Implied in the phrase "great artist" is recognition, even if it comes belatedly, long after the artist's time. Recognition implies awareness of the artist's work (the giving pleasure "forever" I alluded to) and of its putative imfluence on that of others. Marcel Simon