Probably because it is not art.It is representation as close to what
every body
experiences on a daily basis. The cold blooded camera is incapable of
interpreting
what it perceives, which it the 'only' thing that humans can do. to
make art
mando
On Sep 4, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
Do you mean something like this?
mando
Yes.
Since this is an image of happy, healthy, beautiful people, it
would never be
found in a museum of Contemporary Art. (even if it were a good
photograph, or,
heaven forbid, a good painting)
But the prohibition against the positive representation of people
may be
slackening, or at least exceptions are allowed on behalf of cultural
diversity.
The newly opened Modern Wing at the Art Institute devoted a small
room to the
contemporary artist, James Kerry Marshall, which featured large
scale
paintings that celebrated happy young African Americans in love.
I'm not saying that public collections of contemporary art should
only display
this kind of thing -- but it's a spiritual and moral failure to
exclude
positive images of human life.
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