Creating a Conceptual Framework for Images

Ha ha! "...Any dealer will tell you, it is perfectly possible for any artist with decent work habits to produce more work in three or four years than there are buyers worldwide who might possible acquire them, ever." (66) Dave Hickey, you are a delight! Your pessimism makes me smile, and I think maybe I'm falling in love with you, maybe? What I love about air guitar is the fact that I feel I'm peaking into a secret world I am absolutely unqualified to behold. I should start reading "Art." Does that still exist? Hickey's mama-essay of the first half of this book, "The Birth of the Big, Beautiful Art Market," had just a whole lot of really good insight on installation. The art community talks of responding to commercialism with conceptualism and he's all: "This [would be] a wonderful argument if a painting by Edward Ruscha or Jacques-Louis David were any less 'conceptual' than a pile of dirt on a museum floor--or if that pile of dirt were any less 'commercial' for being financed by minions of the corporate state," and I'm like "Oh, snaps!" GOOD ONE!