In English, particularly American English, "craft" is now mostly used to mean "handicraft": a decorative object, possibly but not necessarily useful, that is produced one at a time rather than mass-produced. The borderline between the more beautiful craft objects and fine art is sometimes a bit blurry.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] craft= Proposal >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Tue Aug 24 18:34:22 America/Chicago 2010 2010/8/24 Simon Ward <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:28:53PM +0200, Simone Saviolo wrote: >> A sculptor (and an art gallery, often) ultimately hopes to sell his >> artwork. By that criterion, nothing would be cratfsmanship. > > Heh, well, that probably goes for very many sculptors (and art > galleries), although it is possible that some are not obsessed with > money, take pride in their work, and present it for the pleasure of its > viewers. IMHO art is not a craft. Crafts do produce something useful while art is mostly without the scope to be useful. It is more or less the definition of art to be "useless" ;-) Art is generally about meaning. Maybe you wanted to express handicraft (de:Kunsthandwerk)? cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
