BTW MoQ'ers should find last week's "Thinking Allowed" interesting on arts and crafts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20080206.shtml
Craft as relationship with the material. Absence of craft in art, due to "overprivelidging of the idea" in art. Regards Ian On 2/12/08, ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, you asked, > > > well, .... is art intellectual or social? > > Yes. > > Notwithstanding the evolution of the word art itself (craft, > technique, any word with "rt" in it basically, etc - Pirsig expends > many words on this.) > > But even art (for art's sake, and art to express and communicate some > specific emotions or thoughts) involves patterns from both extremes > - created within accepted styles / conventions / media (social) > - created to push free of those bounds - either primarily or as well > as the other communication objectives (intellectual) > > As soon as we document, analyse, codify those artistic patterns we > move even the expressive / participatory forms in to the intellectual > level. But at root, the art itself can be largely social, and often > is. > > Ian > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
