High school plays, pottery sold at farmers' markets, free concerts in the park in the summer, cowboy poetry in South Dakota...
why I am not critizing these, it appear that you picked them because of thier broad based support.....
are you being "narrow minded" in your defination?
Where the heck did your last statement come from out of the blue?
an American art critic, professor and philosopher.,
teaching at Columbia University (NYC) since 1951, as a professor since 1966. He has been the recipient of many fellowships and grants including two Guggenheim Fellowships, ACLS, and Fulbright, and has served as Vice-President and President of the American Philosophical Association, as well as President of the American Society for Aesthetics.
the author of numerous books, including Nietzsche as Philosopher, Mysticism and Morality, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Narration and Knowledge, Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, and Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present, a collection of art criticism which won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism in 1990. His most recent book is Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life .
As art critic for The Nation, he has also published numerous articles in other journals. In addition, he is an editor of the Journal of Philosophy and consulting editor for various other publications.
Prof. ...... is contributing editor of Naked Punch Review.
* Emeritus Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
* B.A., Wayne State University (1948)
* M.A., Columbia University (1949)
* Ph.D., Columbia University (1952)