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Art is a Gift - Grab Bag Media
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Art is a Gift

February 1, 2010

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“The action of making art is an act in opposition to the Darwinian drive towards the survival of the fittest. Art is not forged by the instinct to survive; rather it emerges from the impulse to give a gift.”

-from Anne’s Bogart’s blog

Discussion:


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    I like this, and find some truth here. But then, often art is also created to get laid, which is as base a Darwinian function as possible. So sometimes art is a gift, sometime it is reciprocally altruistic, and sometimes it is just the expression of an irreducible mental drive. I think its validity is unchanged in any of those cases, though.

    Comment by ish on February 3, 2010 at 7:12 pm

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