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Re: [Digital BW] Re: ART and LIFE

2001-10-27 by Tim Spragens

I'd agree it isn't going anywhere if it turns into a verbal fencing match, but thanks for your views. 

I jumped in not for a discussion of what is valuable, but because I'm interested in what one 
considers to be art and what art does. We don't have to agree on what it is as long as we know 
what someone else means when they use the term.

Tim

> I have resisted jumping into (piling onto?) this discussion because
> (for me) it wasn't going anywhere.  Sweeping pronouncements about
> "this is valuable and that isn't" don't get me very far- it all
> depends upon the context.
> 
> Communication with others requires clarity, clarity requires
> contemplation,
> study, and experimentation.  Communication with oneself may indeed
> devolve into navel gazing, or "personal therapy;"  on the other hand
> it is the corner stone of successful communication with others.
> 
> Bill Morse
> 

--
Tim Spragens
http://www.borderless-photos.com
&
http://www.borderless-photos.de

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