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From: Terry Pratchett <tpratch...@unseen.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:59:47 +0000
Local: Tues, Mar 20 2001 1:59 pm
Subject: Re: [I] Those photos
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In article <985112881.28683.0.nnrp-10.c1ed0...@news.demon.co.uk>, Orjan
Westin <s...@cunobaros.demon.co.uk> writes

>-- Art is something original created by humans in a conscious effort,
>which
>succeeds in its primary purpose of letting the consumer partake in and
>add
>to an enhanced experience. --

>Okay, that's that, we know what art is, and so it would follow that
>whoever
>the human in the definition above is, he or she is an artist. Wouldn't
>it?

Nicely done, and I won't nit-pick, since some of the 'works of art' left
out by your definition deserve to be.

Your definition, though, clearly puts the work of art ahead of the
artist.  In the old medieval Guilds a 'masterpiece' was a very specific
thing -- it was a work of craft created by a journeyman to demonstrate
to the Guild that he [1] was in full command of the skills of the trade
and was therefore a 'master'.  This is similar.  You are saying that the
artist *becomes* an artist because of his or her accomplishment; they
have fulfilled the conditions necessary.  It is made, the consumer is
suitably moved, the creator is an artist.  I have no problem with that
at all, since I've been arguing against the opposite view: the
declaration that one is an artist and *therefore* can declare any
product a work of art.

[1] a masterpiece in the Seamstresses' Guild would be interesting.  A
piece of fine lace, I have no doubt.
--
Terry Pratchett


 
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