Re: "An 'aesthetic experience' MAKES the work 'art'"

[Saul Ostrow]

This is not a question of art not art anymore than it is a question of dog
not dog -  all three statements including the one I am now writing  are
examples of, and manifestations of the ways we in our culture have come to
organize things - these systems (taxonomies, philosophies, practices,
disciplines, etc.) are subject to constant revision due to the fact that one
device we have developed is a self-reflexive/ reflective loop - consequently
- for the moment seemingly Cheers would identify this process as ontological
and I identify it with epistemology. How this loop developed is a very
different question from how we use or miss-use it as a way of knowing.