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From: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: A Fine Arts Newsgroup
Keywords: fine arts
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Date: 1 Mar 90 12:11:59 GMT
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Reply-To: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)
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I was dreading the prospect of this discussion for a long
time.  The really best name for such a newsgroup would be
rec.arts.plastic, but no one would know what that meant so I
guess it would end up being called rec.arts.fine even though
that's kind of dumb.  Why should painting, sculpture etc.
be considered "finer" arts than dance, music etc.?  OK, so
it's just a convenient label... but then again you can
imagine someone saying _The Dinner Party_ is not "fine" art,
it's a craft-based political statement...   argh...

well, you see what I mean
--Jamie.
  jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk
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