Collier Family on fri 19 jun 98
Sandra K. Tesar wrote:
Western minds do have a tendency to isolate factors and miss the
wholistic overviews that make art of an act, a pitcher, a drawing, a
moment where life and the human experience comes together.
............this writer puts a spin on craft as art as life as craft
as being.
Hi All,
This debate seems to be peculiarly Western as the African mind does not
seem to distinguish between the two. I do not know whether other
cultures seem to view the two as seperate. In fact, more traditional
Africans view art with disdain as it usually has no physical function.
To illustrate......when my father showed an old African a macaw, the
elderly gentleman commented that the bird was indeed beautiful, but
asked "can it be eaten?"
My two bits worth
Tracey in South Africa
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