PERRY STEARNS on mon 16 jul 01
"With the huge increase in perfectly able hobby and
amateur potters with access to all the materials and
resources previously only available to professionals or
students, the status of work/art by all makers/artists
is being seriously undermined.
Professional artists and potters need to develop into
areas where the lesser skilled or educated (for want of
better descriptions) are unable or fear to tread. We
need more individualists and leaders, with fewer
copying ideas and concepts however meaningful and
unique they consider their own work"
Janet Kaiser (bless her, she of the unerring finger right on our soft spot)
We could call this "The Post-Modernist Scramble"...deploring the Information
Age and all those wretched newcomers learning things that once were
Guild-like in their inscrutability and then rushing off into inscrutability
ourselves before the hoi-poloi catch up with us. Doncha luv it?
Fran Stearns
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