Re: what is art yet again?...tired (was: outsider art)

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From: Philip willarney (pwillarney@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/08/03-02:49:26 PM Z


--- Christopher Lovenguth <zantzant@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> I find this so interesting that every other month
> people here seemed quite
> confused as to what is art. Why do I only ever see
> photographers so
> preoccupied with this? It is almost like some people
> here are constantly
> searching for ammunition to prove a point of how
> messed up the art world
..snip..
Well -- not just photographers -- my wife is an artist
who makes pictures using beads; yet she's often told
that she is a craftsperson, not an artist, and that
what she makes isn't art. So a lot of people seem to
have quite a bit invested in what is and isn't art!

-- pw

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