This is the old Bauhaus method. Also similar to John Dewey's theory of education. Although meaning does not, however, eminate from objects.
wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, January 10, 2012 2:59:22 PM Subject: "So much of the art practice of modern artists involves handling objects and playing with them. From that play emerges the form, then the structure and then the meaning." "So much of the art practice of modern artists involves handling objects and playing with them. From that play emerges the form, then the structure and then the meaning." http://www.frontline.in/stories/20120127290112900.htm
