Sadly I couldn't listen to the Grayson Perry lecture on my android as a bbc app that is not available here is required. Did manage to listen to a truncated version on Youtube and what I heard/saw was quite interesting.
As you may know I struggle greatly with the concept of art/artist. Hearing him say (if I understood him) that a small cadre of intellectuals (pseudo-intellectuals?) control the definition of art, decide what is/isn't art and obfuscate the whole mish-mash with purposefully impenetrable language kind of confirms what I've suspected all along. But as I said, maybe I missed his point. As I've said before it's gotten to the point that (to paraphrase a US senator's definition of pornogrpahy), "I can't define art but I know it when I see it." I get to define or decide if something's art ~for me~ but so does everyone else. Anyway, sounds like you gents must have had a wonderful day and a very interesting discussion afterwards (while sharpening the daggers to plunge into the hearts of us Pentaxians). Seriously, lovely cameras and I still lust for X100. I thoroughly enjoyed your photos with wry comments. As mentioned in another post, it's a real boost to realize that since I'm a photographer of black and white bicycle photos I must be an artist! :O Cheers frank Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >Yesterday's meet-up at the Photographers' Gallery for the Lartigue >exhibition, and the side-trip to the Tony Ray-Jones / Martin Parr show >at >the Science Museum naturally brought to the fore some important >questions >about the nature of Art-with-a-capital-A. > >I decided to apply my critical faculties to the pictures I took >yesterday, >most of which are here, with accompanying pensées de l'artiste: >http://www.web-options.com/ArtQ/ > >Chris referred me to this year's Reith Lectures given by Grayson Perry, >so I >read the transcripts when I got home. I urge you to do likewise, they >are >very interesting: ><http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9> > >Meantime, here's some people dancin' >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2j8f7H2WY > >B “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
