dumbfoundry

In other words, modern artists have been less and less concerned with appealing to a mass audience and more and more concerned with responding to sophisticated critics and to other artists. In fiction, film, poetry, dance, and music, such insular emphasis on a genre's own technique is dubbed "experimental." The experimental style is distinct from "mainstream" work, which consists of attempts to communicate with an audience of nonspecialists, and places less emphasis on leaping beyond what has been done before. The difference between the modern visual arts and fiction, film, etc., is that in the former, experimental and mainstream are often the same thing. Why is this the case? [...]

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