Just a random thought: it seems to me that as TV advertising disappears that it's not so threatening any more. And it's starting to feel like we can appreciate it again but not in a postmodern everything-is-the-same sense but actually for what it is (was) in itself. That is good, bad, indifferent, beautiful.
12 May 2009
I have a suspicion that in 300 years advertising is what art historians will focus on when discussing our period. I morn the decline of the partially sighted giant white elephant because apart from being entertaining in is own right, it seems to me that given it's high cost and relative ineffectiveness, television advertising and event sponsorship are very much like a corporation tax targeted at funding the entertainment industry.
Posted by: Robert Brandt | 28 May 2009 at 09:10 AM