Sad.
The title of this short story says it all, a Hunger Artist.
Kinda reminds me of how many musicians and actors are trying to make it in the business's, but can't due to illegal downloading. Many of them make their living though songs being played on the radio and movies being broadcast on TV.
The reason i bring that up is because the term "Hunger artist" was first heard over the radio on the Howard Stern Show, that was the place i learned that from. Spoke about how youtube.com and many other websites are harming the Entertainment industry with sharing something that is not theres.
Found it sad the character had to go at great lengths to get noticed. I tend to ponder if the artist was sane or not.
What do you think?
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Yes, these parallels are worth exploring in more detail. Also, consider:
what does the story suggest about the value, subject matter, etc. of art, and the relationship between the artist and his/her medium? In this case the artist useses himself--his body--as his art...
See also my comments on Albert's blog, and consider also the title, and some of the questions circling around art, the artist, the relationship between the two, the value of art, its purpose, the relationship between art, artist, the artist and the person(personal) man/woman, and the commercial (exploitative) world of art “business,” etc.
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