From: Halvor (halvorb@mac.com)
Date: 04/17/02-09:51:00 AM Z
on 17.04.02 15:08, Judy Seigel at jseigel@panix.com wrote:
> Halvor asked what is art. Nobody seemed to answer. That's another
> dangerous job, but somebody's got to do it.
>
> Art is (as was officially decreed in the 1960s) whatever an artist does in
> an art context. The real question, however, is what is *GOOD* art. My
> definition is: a work with a visual component that tells or shows
> something we didn't know before. A photo that looks like existing photos
> is unlikely to do this, unless there's a conceptual "wink" -- or other
> manner or expression or offbeam take on it.
>
Thanks for addressing that one. I am working on a theory which I will come
back to later. Do however have to pay a bit attention to my "normal" life
for a while and the mysteries of gelatine :(
but are reading.
Halvor
Former lumberjack
(That was a very short stunt)
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