There are two ways to think about all of this. One, for sympathizers, is to view Mr. Hirst as a resourceful artist-philosopher with a broad, deep and comprehensive vision of modernity and its spiritual plight.
Detractors may see him as a clever showman trafficking in academic platitudes: a third-rate Warhol, a second-rate Koons.
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Detractors may see him as a clever showman trafficking in academic platitudes: a third-rate Warhol, a second-rate Koons.
- bill 2-18-2005 6:02 pm