[Dixielandjazz] Some questions on defining "Art"

[Cees van den Heuvel]

> Cees writes:
>
> >   There is no art.
>
> Well, there certainly seems to be considerable agreement among people that
> there is!

Read my last sentence!

> >   There are people who declare something is art.
>
> Does that make something "art?" or is crap that has been declared "art"
> still crap?

Depending on how "important" the people are who declare something
is art: crap is art or crap, they decide.


> >   Then there is art.
>
> I can't agree that someone simply declaring something to be "art"
> automatically confers this special status on it.

When someone is "important" then his/her opinion is followed by the
would be importants too, a fact of life.

> I just trimmed my fingernails. I took my right thumbnail clipping and put
it
> in a frame and hung it on the wall and declared it to be "art."  Am I or
am
> I not BS'ing you?

I don't know how many followers you have. When you are a maecenas
of the arts your fingernail will be in the museum of modern arts!
And all of you other now obsolete body parts too b.t.w.....


> Respectfully submitted,
Reciprocal,
Cees

> Bill Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
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