And what is this statement based on - I privilege no form over all others - I just do not believe that because something does not reflect traditional values it is any less then those that do - and that those that do are no more art if they merely fulfill the traditional values and aspirations by employing traditional techniques. I privilege no form over all others because I do not believe art has a form - I believe it is that it is a complex discourse network that is both emergent and recursive - I believe art to be both aesthetic and rhetorical and that it hypothetical, speculative and constitutes a way of knowing - and while it "reflect the economic and social circumstances in which an artist works - if their work is successful it continues to identify something the economic, social, and cultural circumstances of its audience - what I do not do is fetishize art as a unique endeavor devoid of competition or so qualitatively different from all other endeavors by which we try to understand ourselves (science, philosophy, the social sciences, the humanities) To believe that the workings of art is different from these things.We trivializes this endeavor when we reduce it to a question of form, taste ,style, bio, spirituality, humanity, etc. because there is no knowing-no self-reflexivity in these things - and it is knowing and self-reflexivity that I privilege - which is something you Chris seem to know very little about and therefore privilege more tangible things - I do not fault you in this - you know no better
On 4/27/09 8:37 AM, "Chris Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: Nowadays, of course, plenty of work is made to "reflect the economic and social circumstances in which an artist works". That's the genre in which Saul is a specialist, and which he would like to privilege above all others -- ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
