On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 22:41, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 7. Sep 2020, at 23:29, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > It's a memorial or it's not. If it's not a memorial, and there just > because it looks > > nice (somebody else brought up that possibility, not me) it's artwork. > > I don’t find a definition of art, work of art, where something like an > anchor without a story has room. Can you point me to one? > It's late, and I'm having difficulty understanding what you're getting at. So I've had to guess. The original poster asked about an anchor that was put in place because it looked nice, not because it had any historical significance. I have no idea if there are any anchors like that, but I've seen all sorts of things (like chimney pots) placed on the ground for display because they look nice, so anchors are a possibility. If it's there solely because it looks nice, the only way I can think of mapping it is artwork. If it's not specially crafted to be displayed then it's not a sculpture (I'm aware of something specially crafted to look like three links in a ship's chain so that actually is a sculpture) or an installation. The closest type of artwork I can think of to describe a repurposed anchor is "found art" (also known as "found object" and "objet trouvé"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object Maybe somebody who is actually an artist (I'm not) has a better term for "anchor on display for no other purpose than that it looks nice." -- Paul
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