What also irks me is that he says stuff like, "I ... knew it was a stinker from the moment I read it. ... I anticipated it would be a bomb." He sounds like Brian Slade there, betraying the idea that only artworks that are popular and successful are worthy. Since he is supposedly so fascinated by the outsider and avant garde art scenes, his taste is shown to be awfully mundane here.
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What also irks me is that he says stuff like, "I ... knew it was a stinker from the moment I read it. ... I anticipated it would be a bomb." He sounds like Brian Slade there, betraying the idea that only artworks that are popular and successful are worthy. Since he is supposedly so fascinated by the outsider and avant garde art scenes, his taste is shown to be awfully mundane here.