Vince Pitelka on tue 7 sep 10
Paul Gerhold posted a web link that provided the following definition of
art:
"Art is the organization of sense impressions [into pleasurable formal
relations] that expresses the artist's sensibility and communicates to his
audience a sense of values that can transform their lives."
Pleasurable formal relations? Who says? Why should that be a criteria at
all?
If one of the criteria is that art must communicate a sense of values that
can transform peoples' lives, then a good percentage of the work that we
call art in the museums around the world isn't really art at all.
And what is meant by a "sense of values?" Why should art have to
communicate a sense of values?
There is plenty of decent art that just decorates or entertains. Also,
there is lots of art that tells a story without communicating any particula=
r
sense of values.
I am sorry, but I think that this definition is restrictive and misleading.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Tech University
vpitelka@dtccom.net; wpitelka@tntech.edu
http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka
May Luk on thu 9 sep 10
I read "sense of values" =3D3D cultural currency
May
Brooklyn NY
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Vince Pitelka wrote:
> Paul Gerhold posted a web link that provided the following definition of
> art:
>
> "Art is the organization of sense impressions [into pleasurable formal
> relations] that expresses the artist's sensibility and communicates to hi=
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s
> audience a sense of values that can transform their lives."
>
> Pleasurable formal relations? =3DA0Who says? =3DA0Why should that be a cr=
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ia at
> all?
>
> If one of the criteria is that art must communicate a sense of values tha=
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> can transform peoples' lives, then a good percentage of the work that we
> call art in the museums around the world isn't really art at all.
>
> And what is meant by a "sense of values?" =3DA0Why should art have to
> communicate a sense of values?
>
> There is plenty of decent art that just decorates or entertains. =3DA0Als=
o,
> there is lots of art that tells a story without communicating any particu=
=3D
lar
> sense of values.
>
> I am sorry, but I think that this definition is restrictive and misleadin=
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g.
> - Vince
>
> Vince Pitelka
> Appalachian Center for Craft
> Tennessee Tech University
> vpitelka@dtccom.net; wpitelka@tntech.edu
> http://iweb.tntech.edu/wpitelka
>
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