{The Floating Bard [continued (3)]}[8th November 1990]

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The answer* has a lot to do with the type of society and the extent** to which it extends** (or attempts to extend) its hierarchy from the merely social into all types of differentiation.

It is perfectly possible, for a ‘classical’ culture especially, to formalise the arts, with varying degrees of thoroughness, so as to redefine the meaning of the artist for the purposes and values of that society: anyone who practises outside the accepted definition, simply is not considered to be an artist.***

It is equally possible in theory for a society and the individuals within it to reach such an advanced level of inner-circle harmony that the arts and the Artist are truly integrated within themselves and into the society.

To a limited extent both these conditions can probably co-exist; but I do not know enough about Classical Greece to decide in this case.****

*[Presumably, the answer to the contrast between the position of the primitive bard (see last previous entry but one) & of the artist in the great age of Classical Greece and, later, of Rome (see last previous entry)]

**[sic]

***[or perhaps a ‘proper’ artist?]

****[ie whether they did co-exist in Classical Greece, presumably]

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