JohninKansas,

I may be more talking about the UK, where there has been, as far as my distant eye can see, a heavy swing towards the three Rs, and consequent loss of imaginative and creative subjects (and then people wonder why so much tv, films, music etc. made today is crap). We have school league tables, heavy emphasis on material RELEVANT to getting a job, and with that sort of minset, society is less like ly to 'get' atr in its many forms. It also nurtures puritanical attitudes.

Insofar as we're talking about responding to the arts and artitistic evaluation, I'll add more later, only I've got to go to work (It's 10.53 a.m., and I start at noon gmt)

Just to say, A Beeb prog. had a reporter go and find out "What is Great Art?". The essence of the answer was, whatever the consensus opinion is among those in the relevant part of the art scene.

For myself,.............(sorry must go)

Ivor