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Re: Art! or Not Art!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 18:27:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jasper Janssen writes:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 05:05:06 GMT, John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net>
> wrote:
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> > When I hear people not being willing to define art and thus in essence say • art is
> > everything, I try and provide things that I think art isn't. If some moron • artist
> > actually thinks this is some sort of performance art, _on what basis_ can we
> > respond "You are an idiot and a charlatan" if we concede that art is • everything?
> > Appeal to laws? Do the laws of men define art?
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> Because it is _bad_ art. Not because it's not art.
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> Jasper
Bad art is usually consigned to the Not Art category, but only over time.
Unless it's an illustration, in which case it is Not Art immediately. :-)
Bruce
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