I'm not suggesting that art requires the critics to make it into being. I'm simply uncomfortable with placing it entirely at the mercy of the artist. This makes art, its status, and its potential for meaning all dependent on the artist, which I don't think is the case. What's dependent on the artist is the concept and manifestation of the art...the creative act. I'm uncomfortable with the idea of artist as dictator, when I think that much of the power rests in the minds of those who experience the work.
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if you think that, say, conceptual art is nonsense make something yourself. typically that shuts up the smug Consumer: if you think it's so easy, why aren't you doing it?
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This is easily one of the greatest sources of animosity between the public and the artist. But I don't think this means the public plays no role in validating something as art and being a source of generating meaning from it.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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