Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world its ayatollah deliverer and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk Pop Art Jeff Koons Marcel Duchamp Francis Bacon and Catholicism.
This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.
In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
