[Livia]

Originally Posted by Mrluvaluva

Personally, I totally agree in regards to most of her work. She has never particularly appealed to me. I was just making the point that a lot of people do seem to like her work, for whatever reasons unbeknownst to you or I.

Yes, I get what you're saying. My personal view though is that it's because they're pretentious and want us all to think they know something about art that we don't. There is a lot of modern art that I don't "get" but can see it good, but with Emin and a few others, I think some people pretend that something's there that we mere mortals who don't air-kiss and call each other "dahling" couldn't possibly understand - The Emperor's New Clothes syndrome. Now this might be me being cynical (surely not!) but I don't tend to read award-winning literature either because I find it pretentious and prefer a good story to something the Literati has decided is worthy of their praise.