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March 04, 2005
LBJMDB: Defining art
Above is a ceramic LBJ cigar ashtray. The ebay description says it is “a nice piece of art.” But is it? It’s nice, certainly, but is it art? Oscar Wilde told us that art should be useless and this ashtray is far from it: One can rest one’s cigar atop the hat and ash into the brim. That’s pretty useful, I would say, assuming you’re a cigar-smoker. And who doesn’t like a big fat stogie now and again?
Posted by teb at March 4, 2005 02:07 PM