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 -
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@HeerJeet@aoscott@organicdemocrat And still all of the critics and writers being referenced here are men. There's an entire field1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@organicdemocrat@HeerJeet@aoscott (Meaning women who've written cultural crit re childhood/adulthood for years, including, um, feminists.)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@sarahrhamburg Fair point.
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