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I just meant that people generally build on art they’ve already seen/heard/read rather than being completely original.
The difference is that criticism is mistaken if it only praises things for being completely new.
Depends what you mean by “seriously”. The copyright industry largely feeds on said myth, for example.
I’m not sure whether people believe that art can be devoid of precedent, but I do think that a lot of what drives high art for the past century more or less is the desire to have as little precedent as possible.
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I just meant that people generally build on art they’ve already seen/heard/read rather than being completely original.
The difference is that criticism is mistaken if it only praises things for being completely new.
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Depends what you mean by “seriously”. The copyright industry largely feeds on said myth, for example.
I’m not sure whether people believe that art can be devoid of precedent, but I do think that a lot of what drives high art for the past century more or less is the desire to have as little precedent as possible.