May 2013
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“During the Dutch Golden Age, works of art were created for sale on the market as...”
– Debunking some common perceptions about arts patronage in the past:
The art market flourished in the Low Countries as the increasingly wealthy middle class of the seventeenth-century ‘golden age’ bought paintings and etchings, hand-painted tiles and books with engravings for their homes. Some...
April 2013
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“We should be asking researchers to spend less time generating new research and...”
– Arts policy commentator Ian David Moss talks about how there is almost no meaningful connection between the academic research infrastructure and the professional arts ecosystem because lots of research relevant to the arts is published in academic journals each year and are typically behind a pay...
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“Theory and positions are important, but they often lead to dogmatic thinking,...”
– Jerry Saltz (2002) Learning on the Job: Anticipating the New Season, the Critic Reflects on His Role, Village Voice, Tuesday, Sep 10 2002
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“Future generations will peruse today’s art magazines and suppose ours was...”
– Like James Elkins, Jerry Saltz expresses the sentiment that art criticism has largely given up judging artworks in favour of describing them.
Jerry Saltz (2002) Learning on the Job: Anticipating the New Season, the Critic Reflects on His Role, Village Voice, Tuesday, Sep 10 2002
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“Denying the content of art and its social responsibility, moving in the...”
– Jiang Feng (~1956) “Impressionism is not Realism - 印象主义不是现实主义”
Jiang Feng was the vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts before being ironically and wrongly persecuted by the Communist Party during the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1957 being sympathetic to western painters.
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“Once it must have been pretty, but now it is exquisite.”
– James Elkins referring to a Song Dynasty tea bowl IN James Elkins (2002) Two Ways of Looking at Ceramics, p. 22
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“This is wonderful writing: judicious, measured, improvisational.”
– James Elkin (2008) On the Absence of Judgement in Art Criticism
February 2013
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“Art is not a physical category, it is a social construct.”
– Amy Goldin (1969) Deep Art and Shallow Art, New American Review #4 p. 102
I feel as though Goldin has had the last word on “what is art” in this blatantly simple statement. Now, let’s all move on.
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“Artistic meaning cannot be created by fiat. Even if the artist says that he...”
– Amy Goldin (1969) Deep Art and Shallow Art, New American Review #4
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“What is new and curious about postmodernism is that it is an anti-rationalist...”
– Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont (1955) Fashionable nonsense: postmodern intellectuals’ abuse of science, New York- Picador, p. 198
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January 2013
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“The Sun never knew how wonderful it was until it fell on the wall of a building.”
– Louis Kahn quoted by Charles Moore in Junichiro Tanizaki (1933) In Praise of Shadows, London: Random House p. 1
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“If the labor of art production is outsourced to others, while the artist and the...”
– Anton Vidockle
December 2012
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“You do not have a aesthetic experience because the object is beautiful or...”
– Blocker, G. H. & Jeffers, J. M. (1999) Contextualising Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard, Wadsworth Publishing Company, p. xi
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“To take an idea that has already been intellectually formulated and then try to...”
– Blocker, G. H. & Jeffers, J. M. (1999) Contextualising Aesthetics: From Plato to Lyotard, Wadsworth Publishing Company, p. 58
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“If we do not honour our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we...”
– Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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“Creating art is an intentional activity; accidents, fortuitous or not, may occur...”
– George Dickie (1984) The Art Circle, New York: Haven Publications
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“How is it possible for men not to rejoice each day over the pleasure of being...”
– Donald Keene (1967) Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 79
November 2012
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“Art which does not beautify our country in plain simple terms that everyone can...”
– Congressman George A. Dondero of Michigan quoted in Arthur Danto (2003) The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art, Chicago: Open Court Publishing, p. 26
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“Make art about life, not art about art.”
– Kathy Grayson (2012)
October 2012
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“I think obscure writing is a form of territorial behaviour that can be compared...”
– Peter Schjeldahl in an interview with Robert Storr (1982) On Art and Artists
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“Real art … is no coded demand for a piece of the pie of recognition. It is...”
– Peter Schejldahl (1981)
September 2012
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“There isn’t any gap. Art is notional. There is only life and death.”
– Peter Schjeldahl (2007) “Chris Burden and the Limits of Art”, The New Yorker
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“I link, therefore I am.”
– William J. Mitchell (2003) Me++, The Cyborg Self and The Networked City, Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 62
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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
– Pablo Neruda (1924) Tonight I can write the saddest lines
August 2012
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“The aesthetic value of the different spatial types is as independent of...”
– Rob Krier (1979) Urban Space, Academic Edition: London, p. 19 