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7 Apr 2021 Conversations with Tyler Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire

“I think of him as a kind of brilliant eccentric artist, and the Catholicism gives a certain weight to his art, but he would not be on my shortlist of great artists of the 20th century.”

— Dana Gioia

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Dana Gioia
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belief
Recorded
7 Apr 2021
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…Is Andy Warhol an effective Catholic artist? It depends on what you mean by a Catholic artist. He is a Catholic artist in that he recognizes the power of the iconic image and the incarnational quality of art. That being said, if you ask, what he does so well, is it worth doing? I’m not sure a lot of it is. I think of him as a kind of brilliant eccentric artist, and the Catholicism gives a certain weight to his art, but he would not be on my shortlist of great artists of the 20th century. What is the most significant work by Ray Bradbury?…

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