From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 11/01/01-06:20:57 PM Z
>
>Tho I'm certainly resistant to notion of Photoshop as an art form in
>itself, Shannon is I suspect using the term as a form of shorthand for
>"digital" -- if so, digital is a *technical* means that has enabled new
>forms of art.
Yes, that's how I was using it.
>
>But issues of the inter-relation of new technical means with new art forms
>have been plumbed in "the canon." William Ivins classic discussion of the
>*syntax* of media, epecially printmaking (title eluding me now) is perhaps
>the place to begin. (Tho Gombrich also has early chapters on the ways
>"seeing" evolved as media advanced -- I'm spacing on that title too, could
>be "Art & Illusion" ? Those scanner programs really burn your brain.)
I think that's it. I read that this summer and really liked it.
--shannon
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : 12/10/01-11:12:21 AM Z CST