Free Market
Author:
Michael Levin
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The Free Market 14, no. 5 (May 1996) The dialectic goes like this. First, an artist—I use the term broadly—exhibits something pornographic, blasphemous, or otherwise egregiously offensive. His opus may well be an action, as when an HIV-positive “performance artist” had his back cut open before a surprised audience in Minneapolis. Next, the