Hi Edward, I do agree with you for the most part, but I think that play is only a part of art, that art means different things in different cultures, and that superstructural considerations are important. A child plays and creates, tests boundaries, repeats, experiments; with conceptual art, other things are at work as well. Conceptual art gives me great joy in relation to what it might say about knowledge in general for example.
In other words, a child plays and creates, and that is art (look at Dubuffet for example, how this might extent), but art has surplus meaning beyond that. I like Bourdieu's book Distinction, which deals with art in terms of community and cultural capitals; it's been of use to me. Art also then has lineages and institutions that move beyond play, or hopefully, take play along with it.
Aharon, in this regard, I see as play, but also as something else... - Alan _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
