TheSecretGoldfish wrote: > this brings up something else. the medias which > criticism makes use of. if the critic is equal to the > artist, wouldn't criticism of say, a painting, be > more valid if the critic painted his criticism of it? Is Cubism not a painted critique of Realism? Or of Impressionism? "Fine and well," you will say, "but Cubist painters aren't critics; they're painters." Yes, by Saint Patrick but they are critics, and good ones, too. -- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu