Karen Sullivan on fri 2 feb 01
So Diane, if I may continue...
In school, or at ART Openings, when you get the opportunity
to listen to ARTISTS !!! talk about their work,
listen carefully....try to get a sense of what drives their
inquiry...the nature of the ideas.
There is no indication that the artist and
the art historian have any clue about strategies of dealing with each other.
I think that is quite interesting.
In a contemporary context...it would be the critic up against
the artist...Two very different paradigms of reality...
Such fun...this world we exist in..
bamboo karen and thanks Diane
on 2/2/01 10:02 AM, Diane Echlin at Dechlin@CONNIX.COM wrote:
> Karen, what a great crystallization of the issue! I've been discusssing my
> experiences in this class with my sister (thinks most art is "wierd"!!!) and
> trying
> to get to the bottom of my disappointment in this class. What I've determined
> is
> that I had a completely erroneous preconception about what this class was. I
> was
> thinking Art (with a capital A,) and it turns out to be History. So now that
> I
> have realized my expectations were off base, I'm hoping I can slog through the
> academic pursuit of learning the history, contexts, relevance issues that will
> come
> up. So off I go to learn about context, not process.
>
> And this is why I'm still renting studio space, even though I now spend less
> than 5
> hours a week there---to keep that connection with the process!
> Diane in CT
>
> Karen Sullivan wrote:
>
>> So okay guys, I've listened to the discussion about
>> art history...............
>>
>> First of all, I can appreciate that much of the
>> discussion is really about how different the
>> academic mind functions from the intuitive/
>> artistic thought process.
>> Art historians function to guide us in the value,
>> and relevance/ interpretation of art objects.
>>
>> I think Art History is in large part an
>> appreciation of HISTORY...and context...
>> And to do an admirable job, one needs an
>> academic/linear/fact based relationship to
>> the world. All of which I admire for the
>> specific skills of art historians in placing
>> work and ideas within the framework of time/ and the
>> nature of the ideas and mindset that allowed
>> their creation.
>>
>> So the making of art is another process
>> entirely...eh, what???
>> But I think it is important to consider the
>> range of issues that art historians discuss.
>> Context...the nature of the ideas....
>>
>> Unless you are making a chip 'n dip, in
>> which case who cares about the political/historical/
>> social issues your are alluding to.
>> Or the pressing issues of the times in which
>> you inhabit. Although it is perhaps a potent
>> response you are making to the world my spending
>> your time making chip 'n dips...
>>
>> I hope that the art historians
>> who discuss our times have the perception to be able
>> to respond and record our participation in the
>> human drama of history.
>> Perhaps, by being unfamiliar with process allows for
>> an objective response/evaluation of the object's ability
>> to communicate the idea without any consideration of
>> the material requirements of it's creation.
>>
>> bamboo karen
>>
>>
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