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A way to look at it that they are basically the same art, both creatively and performatively, as the mascot at a sporting event. There, the costume and performer's job is to attract the attention of thousands of people who have very likely paid good money to pay attention to something else.

So, I mean, they're attention getting. Kind of like the purpose of a book cover.

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