On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, ailo wrote:
"Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often
with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or
more of the senses, emotions, and intellect."
This sounds like it would include advertisement, spin-doctoring,
agitation-propaganda, religion, ... what else ?
Perhaps Matju is correct when stating:
"By extension, the word « art » is often used to mean whatever skill is
considered unexplainable or mysterious. "
That wouldn't include interpreting any event as being art.
Isn't interpreting something as art what makes it art. Not what
"creates" it?
There are several concurrent meanings being used by different groups of
people. "Art" is a word with certain linguistic functions serving
different purposes in different places.
The "interpretational" meaning of art often doesn't apply to the general
public. Artists may think that artists are the ones who have the right to
decide whether something is art or not. Thus art is what artists make, and
artists are people who make art. It's not a circular definition, it's a
feedback loop. There's also that art is what artists think it is, and the
more you think like that, the more you're (like) an artist.
The "mysterious skill" meaning of art is closer to the original meaning of
the word. "Tech" is a greek word that means "Art"... etc. But university
artists tend to ignore this use of the word... it's foreign to them. Their
art-word is about Duchamp and John Cage and stuff.
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