Digital BW, The Print

Julian Thomas wrote:

> I'm not denigrating academics - I used to lecture in aesthetics! -

Julian,
I was not saying you were, nor am I.  I was just trying to point out the impossibility of taking a subjective
field and trying to quantify it.

Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC



> > Julian Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > Sad isn't it. Art dealers support stuff they can sell, critics write about
> > > things they can write about. None of this has anything to do with the work,
> > > but with the concept behind the work. Arts education (and I used to be in
> > > it) ,for a whole load of reasons that has very little to do with teachers,
> > > is doing a poor job of educating people about art - and very often people
> > > need the help of a dealer to interpret a 'concept'. And there is no causal
> > > link between those who have money to buy art as having the skills to make a
> > > judgement.
> >
> > Look at it this way:  Academics (those that write about and teach the history of art) fulfill a function
> and a
> > demand form the less thoughtful.  And that is to 'empiricalize' something that cannot be quantified.  It
> *is*
> > a conundrum.
> >
> > Harvey Ferdschneider
> > partner, SKID Photography, NYC





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