21. We live in a culture where there are (in both relative & absolute terms) more artists than ever before, clamoring for attention.
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22. Scott is eloquent on this point: "We have more stories, pictures and arguments than we know what to do with,"
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23. "...and each one of them presses on our attention with a claim of uniqueness, a demand to be recognized as special."
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24. In a society of millions of artists, the critic (i.e. Scott) can easily feel beleaguered: only adult in nation of children.
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@organicdemocrat@aoscott I have a whole riff on artists-as-kids, critics-as-adults but this twitter essay already too long.2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes -
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@HeerJeet@organicdemocrat so interesting. my touchstones on that are Wilde's "Critic as Artist" and Mencken's Art of Criticism.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@aoscott@organicdemocrat Right. Critic as artist. But more recently, critic as performer. Kael as Lenny Bruce of film criticism as example3 replies 2 retweets 1 like
@sarahrhamburg @aoscott I talk about gender side of kids lit & YA here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/its-all-kidlit-now-and-thats-just-fine/article550461/ …
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