In a message dated 3/10/10 12:06:40 AM, [email protected] writes:

> YOU were the guy who first 
> recognized -- not at kitchen table but polite dining room table usage-- 
> the use 
> of a term 'artist' as an HONORIFIC. Be assured that at an academic long 
> table I would never use the term 'artist' as though there were a 
> mind-independent category I were citing. 
> 

Shearman seems to think use of the word artist as an honorific for artisans 
making images was sometime during the High Renaissance, when   people who 
wanted the things   began holding the people who made them in higher 
esteem.....
Kate Sullivan

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