Thread: Is This Art?
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Old 07-06-2004, 08:52 AM   #19 (permalink)
apeman
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Quote:
Originally posted by ratbastid
She was saying that art is that which an artist calls art. Art is a subjective process with a subjective outcome, all of which lives inside the artist's creation and which exists only by the artist's declaration.
i have some sympathy with this; however it is a circular defintion and hence can be abused

1 i am an artist because i produce art
2 it is art because i produced it and i am an artist (see 1)
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