My oldest possession? Let's exclude the granite counter tops and my wife's diamond ring or the oil can with my tools and several fossils, petrified wood and similar pieces of the natural environment that are millions or even a billion years old. I have an initial from a ms of about 1450 and a small MS woodcut print from about 1500. I paid 60 bucks each for them. I also have a bunch of stuff, old family documents, business records, etc., coins, from the early 1800s, but that's about it. I have family silver tableware from 1860 and we use it every day. Mostly, my other old stuff is just ephemera, happenstance. My point is that most daily objects just vanish over a brief while. So why do we try to save things when most of it will be lost within a generation or two anyway? I regard some of my old possessions as very precious, a touchable link to the past. I'd probably try to save it in an emergency. WC
________________________________ From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 8:02:00 PM Subject: Re: Why is it that some people believe that artworks have to be saved ? A 19th century pressing of an 18th century print On 5/6/09 8:57 PM, "William Conger" <[email protected]> wrote: OK, let's take a survey. What's the oldest object in your possession? (Which means it's been saved for a long time). WC ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 ________________________________ From: armando baeza <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 5, 2009 10:04:48 PM Subject: Re: Why is it that some people believe that artworks have to be saved ? Such choices exist to firemen and soldiers every day. mando On May 5, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Michael Brady wrote: > On May 5, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Luc Delannoy wrote: > >> why do you think anyone will come up with this question: saving this or that ? taking this or that ? can't you just let the house burning ? can't you just live alone ? > > The original problem was highly specious. Oh, why be shy: it was asinine. I was just expanding it to inlcude more possibilities, more complexity, and more facetiousness. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [email protected] --
