From: gregg biermann (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jul 24 2010 - 07:50:04 PDT
Sure Rob -- it seems reasonable that categorization is part of
aesthetics -- I don't know the book but if you want to say that politics
are part of the context of art --I won't argue.
Gawthrop, Rob wrote:
> Gregg/Steven
>
> Art cannot exist automonously, there will always be contexts (and
> agents).
>
> Don't your "categories" come within aesthetics? i.e. as per Jacques
> Ranciere's definition:
>
> "In its broad sense, however, aesthetics refers to the
> distribution of the sensible that determines a mode of
> articulation between forms of action, production and thought.
> This general definition extends aesthetics beynd the strict realm
> of art to include the conceptual coordinates and modes of
> visibility operative in the political domain." p82 Ranciere J.
> /Politics of Aesthetics/, 2006, (Continuum, London)
>
>
> Rob
>
>
> On 23/07/2010 21:36, "gregg biermann" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> Steven,
> Isn't the fact that something is considered art at all strong
> evidence of a context? All of the questions about categories
> (genre, tradition, medium, style, movement) or aesthetics that are
> being discussed seem to come from that understanding.
> G
>
> Steven Gladstone wrote:
>
> Does Art need Context to be Art?
>
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