From:
"Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:57:07 +1100
Subject:
What can be art?
Hi all!
How much art contained out of 10
Canned faeces: 3
1/2 cows in Lucite 1
Antique urinals 0 - Duchamp's R Mutt 5
Minimalist Asian sculpture as liked by Bill 2-4
Tart on a Stienway 0
This unanswerable question always gets us sucked in, this may be because Art
is the only term covering a vast collection of activities.
By contrast if we look at writing we are quite happy to accept that most
writers of books are not "artists", there is a delineation between
literature and writing. So most writing is not and cannot be literature.
I actually think its the same in the visual arts, I think its quite
conceivable and blatantly obvious that the vast majority of Painting,
sculptures, prints, installations etc etc contain absolutely no art at all.
The fact that is a sculpture does not necessarily make it art. Hence 0 for
what we are calling "Tart on a Steinway"
Poetry suffers from the same problem as art!
My interest is really how to score more than 5.
Quoted text begins.RE: Norman's observation "(Clive) once told me that a Henry Moore
could tell us more about how a woman of that period saw herself than
any number of words could say"
End of quote.
I say something very close to that very often, "Good Henry Moore reclining
woman could tell us more about how people of that period saw themselves than
any number of words could say"
A good Henry Moore reclining woman would have to break the 5 barrier on my
score card. I'll add that has taken just about a whole lifetime to get to
that view.
Clive
Sculptor Clive Murray-White
Web: www.cowwarr.com
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