Dannon Rhudy on thu 4 mar 99
>proprietary about their artistic traditions. As I said above, we can
>certainly find plenty of inspiration in this work. It is perfectly OK to be
>be inspired and influenced by it. But unless you are a decendant of the
>particular culture, copying the shapes and designs as a product for sale is
>very creepy.
>- Vince
>
I must say I agree in essence with Vince on this. There's nothing wrong
with being influenced by ANYone/anything, learning from it, and expanding
on one's own thereafter. But directly copying designs of another, no matter
how well copied, is still copying. Would you EXACTLY copy one of Vince's
works, if you could? One of Val Cushing's? One of Kurt Wild's, Don
Reitz', Lucie
Rie, or indeed ANY other person's, and present it as your own? Go to, say,
page 32 of Clay Times and copy the condiment dish and tray, for instance? Say
it was "yours"? Yet I daresay many and many a one will sit down and
copy the work of Tammy Garcia (Clay Times pg. 8) right down to the last
dragonfly and think nothing of it at all. It is not different when
work is copied from a native American tribe or family or individual
simply because a whole group uses that/those design(s), or because it is
historically well known.
We are all quite capable of using our own histories and experience to define
our work(s). Makes life rich and interesting for both maker and user.
Now, having said all that, I think of my grandmother, born to the Cherokee.
She would smile, shrug, go on hoeing her own garden, not trouble over what
had naught to do with her.
Dannon Rhudy
potter@koyote.com
hal mc whinnie on fri 5 mar 99
tis is an interesting question because in some cultures such as china and
japamn to copy from another artists is a compliment.
this question arose in relation to copyrights of computer images on the
web and teh almost impossiblity of enforcing copyright laws which may be
less then appropriate in the new age of technologies.
the real question is not about copying but how does one assert asthetic
ownership over a created work whether adopted from another or made
completly by oneselv.?
| |
|
