From: Alejandro Lopez de Haro (alhr@wanadoo.fr)
Date: 06/10/02-09:42:53 AM Z
Dear Judy:
I think we are moving away from the forum spirit, hence maybe we should be
discussing other matters more directly involved with alternative
photographic process which is the main topic of this forum.
Anyhow, I will leave you with the following question raised by Charles
Harrison within the artistic movement Art & Language so you can do more
research on the matter and also this will let you understand better about
morality and honesty within the arts:
"How can aesthetic mode be made independent of the moral unless the work of
art is to bee seen as entirely independent of the character of the artist?"
Regards,
Alejandro López de Haro
----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: Fresson and handmade
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Alejandro Lopez de Haro wrote:
>
> > Judy Siegel wrote: "But what do "honest" and "art" have to do with each
> > other anyway?">
>
> > Honesty and art have much to do with each other as with business and
> > businessmen, law and lawyers, medicine and doctors, journalism and
> > journalist, father and son, husband and wife.
>
> So honesty in art is analogous to honesty in other fields. Perhaps. But
> your claim of what an artist must do to be honest may not be: you do not
> say what a doctor must do to be honest (make his/her own medicine or
> simply take it?) or a lawyer (get him/herself indicted?). Honesty comes in
> many sizes and shapes, and is by no means pre-defined. (Or is, like
> beauty, often as not in the eye of the beholder.)
>
> I'm sure by the way you meant to mention father & daughter, also mother &
> child. But you don't say whether "honesty" requires the parent to raise
> the child him/herself alone -- parenting being a most difficult and
> treacherous art, compared to which photography is mere child's play.
>
> (I note in passing that "parenting" is a relatively recent verbal
> construction, tho I daresay that belongs on the semantics list.)
>
> cheers,
>
> Judy
>
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