In a message dated 5/24/10 9:51:03 AM, [email protected] writes:
> Those in power now are the "art is
> anything" people and yet, Orwellian-like, what they really are saying is,
> Art
> is anything, except traditional skill-based art.
>
I think they haven't realized that if anything is art then skill based
art can and ought to take advantage of that. The use of lightbulbs as a
still life still shocks many who would be appreciative if they were real
lightbulbs in a pile and called art. They would also last longer and be easier
to commodify. It may be a refusal to broaden the scope of skill based art
combined with a need to as Sual said in part: The subject of art is that aspect
of our being we seek to find the means to
objectify (externalize, make actual). The sequence of philosophical events
Saul described in his other letter may then be finding a rational for
describing our own being without trespassing upon the corpus of what many
think
of as real or classic or good art-not so much a deliberate deskilling as an
evasion of comparison.
KAte Sullivan
If Durer was skill based,and if he took as his primary subject the
religious icons of the the time,which he then sold
