When the question is how artists are accepted into the canon defined by the elite gatekeepers—the journal editors, the critics, the department chairs at major universities—then those things should be excluded, because they aren’t part of the phenomenon being studied. They are more strongly governed by different rules.
When the question is how artists are accepted into the canon defined by the elite gatekeepers—the journal editors, the critics, the department chairs at major universities—then those things should be excluded, because they aren’t part of the phenomenon being studied. They are more strongly governed by different rules.