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Review title: Rand gets confused about her own opinions of art
Product review: Perhaps it's because I'm a photographer and Rand insists that photography isn't art that I find her characteristically longwinded pronouncements on art to be somewhat muddled. First, she states that art must represent more than a powerfull image, emotion or mood. Then she calls Vermeer "the greatest of all artists", noting that he devoted his unquestioned skills to "a single theme: light itself". Welcome to my world, Ayn, that's all photography is, a two demensional representation of real light. But her Vermeer argument is badly weakened by that famous work of 17th century pornography, Girl with Pearl Earing. In this work, Vermeer shows he has more than light on his mind, producing about as powerful an image of raw sexuality as the time would permit. There's nothing intellectual about either beautiful light or a sexy girl. They're both about image, emotion or mood; that is, all the things Rand herself insists are not art.
