Good art activates both heart & mind. Its a dualisme not always well reflected in contemporary conceptual art. We often see art drowning in its own philosophical – or; as is more & more the case today – political slogans. I do definitively understand the need for political revolt; but for the artist the uttering…
Tag: Henry James
3 questions
Henry James once proposed three questions you could productively put to an artist’s work: what is the artist trying to achieve? does he/she succeed? is it worth doing? In the great little book Art & Fear Bayles and Orland examines James’ questions, and comments: The first two questions ask you to respond to the work itself,…
Is it really true that there is nothing new to be said about Venice?
Drenched in Venice: Text & Photographs—Natalia Sarkissian. © Natalia Sarkissian *
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