AFH [Defining Art]: Archive

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Dec 21st

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Paul Chan: What Art Is and Where it Belongs →

» Artists have always taken on the responsibility of reflecting on and manifesting the many facets of life. It is no different today. What is new is the speed and breadth at which life lives now. Increasingly, contemporary life has been dominated by the progress of a socioeconomic globalization that has woven an unprecedented and ever-expanding network of production and exchange between...

Dec 21st

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Jan 26th

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Art: by MILO SANTINI

[A synopsis of the project “Defining Art” on AFH Tumblr, using a simple blog format to pursue a web-based scan of the domain, to produce a unique document/not-document, mapping historic definitions of art with current ones, to complement and “bring to a momentary point” multiple - systematic or ongoing - comprehensive dimensional analyses for defining art, presented...

Jan 26th

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“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”

– Frank Zappa

Jan 20th

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Jan 16th

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Through History to Authenticity: John Millei’s... →

For skeptical postmodernists, history, if it exists at all, is a humble discipline, dependent on the present… . The contemporary is the time frame that counts most… . History is important only to the extent that its traces have an impact on the present … it is sufficient to let “the present interrogate the past.”— Pauline Marie Rosenau »> John Millei’s...

Jan 15th

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Jan 15th

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Art and Economics by Frederick Turner →

“…So what goes on in art auctions and those private conversations in the offices of celebrity art dealers is not irrelevant to the enduring questions of art and aesthetic philosophy. When hand and eye and ear are no longer engaged in artistic making, there is a danger that the spiderweb of meaning will break and tear across. The economic abstractions of the world of banking and...

Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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The Artistic Device or, the Articulation of... →

[BY BRIAN HOLMES] One of the strong possibilities of art today is to combine theoretical, sociological or scientific research with a feel for the ways that aesthetic form can influence collective process, so as to de-normalize the investigation and open up both critical and constructive paths. Projects carried out in this way have complex referential content, but they also depend on a highly...

Dec 18th

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Dec 12th

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“A crisis of art Europe, later sixteenth century Round about 1520 all...”

– From The Story of Art, by E.H. Gombrich

Dec 12th

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Nov 30th

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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism - Daniel... →

The affluence of middle-class America in the 1950s had its counterpart in a widespread “middlebrow” culture. The term itself reflected the new style of cultural criticism. In effect, culture, as it came to be conceived in the mass middle-class magazines, was not a discussion of serious works of art but a style of life that was organized and “consumed.” Following suit, cultural criticism became a...

Nov 30th

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LA DIGITAL ART BETWEEN BERGSON AND DELEUZE →

Txt: Sandro D. Fossemò It is difficult to define what “Computer Art” really is. At least for me. I think that currently there isn’t just a single and objective definition. There are many interpretations of works done with a computer which are catalogued under the general and sometimes anonymous denomination of “Digital Art”. Ithink Digital Art is a...

Nov 30th

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Nov 29th

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Art/Critique →

Metapainting, metacritique, French and the shoes and fur are off. [MGT]

Nov 29th

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Nov 13th

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Sharon Butler's terrific painting-centered artblog →

I started Two Coats of Paint because I was interested in exploring and sharing art criticism from regions other than my own. Each day, I read through my bookmarked sites for worthwhile reviews and articles about painting. I used to print them out and store them in a three-ring binder. Eventually I realized that other people might welcome a digest of painting criticism, especially painters,...

Nov 13th

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Oct 25th

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Manifesto I of De Stijl

Manifesto I of De Stijl (excerpt) 1918 1 There is an old and a new consciousness of time. The old is connected with the individual. The new is connected with the universal. The struggle of the individual against the universal is revealing itself in the world war as well as in the art of the present day. 2 The war is destroying the old world and its contents: individual domination in every state. 3...

Oct 25th

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Oct 25th

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Google book - Manifesto: a century of isms By... →

The first anthology of its kind, Manifesto features over two hundred artistic and cultural manifestos from a wide range of countries. The manifesto, a public statement that sets forth the tenets of a forthcoming, existing, or potential movement or “ism”—or that plays on the idea of one—became in various modernisms a crucial and forceful vehicle for artists, writers, and other...

Oct 25th

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Oct 25th

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Oct 25th

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“But this is not the issue. Contemporary artists are not out to supplant recent...”

– Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley

Oct 25th

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ART CONNECT →

Note: This isn’t exactly a definition of art, but I thought the post would be helpful for those surveying how art critique is evolving in the Blogosphere, especially in relation to retail businesses and professional mediation. If you explore the profiles/site features at Art Connect, it’s a fairly easy next step to grok how the web2.0 model is incorporating and modifying (and...

Oct 25th

Oct 20th

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PERFORMANCE ART, DEFINED by Jack Bowman →

When I did my first major performance art piece at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival on April 9, 1993, I handed out a flyer with the performance of Jack’s Theorem and the Primal Thought. On this flyer I wrote “The Act is TRUTH. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the ACT.” This is the best definition that I am aware of for...

Oct 20th

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Oct 20th

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Is art defined by communication? -The Aesthetic... →

Communication lies at the heart of the definition of art for a fair number of people. I included “communication” in my own living document thinking about the eternally elusive meaning of the word “art.” Herein I explore a series of preliminary thoughts about the relationship — or lack thereof — between art and communication.

Oct 20th

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Oct 20th

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Can art be defined? - Review by Roger Kimball →

CERTAINTY is a marvelous thing. It not only provides a useful carapace against the onslaughts of doubt; it also does wonders for one’s self-confidence. It is perhaps the one mental commodity that everyone, admirers and critics alike, will agree that the novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982) possessed in abundance. The attitude must be catching, for her disciples tend to be well endowed...

Oct 20th

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Oct 6th

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““What does the role of the Artist mean to you?” Artists are the...”

– Michael Chichi, from an interview with “Kate” of Reality Sandwich

Oct 5th

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AFH Monster Collective NING FORUM: What is ART →

You have to join first to participate in the forum - [MGT]

Oct 4th

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Definitions of Art, etc., from the Journeyman...

Excerpted from: The Journeyman Project [Concept Paper/Proposal Draft (Beta1)] Definitions TM = Tribal Man WCM = Western Civilized Man “Art” is a specific term, a term applied to creative results. “Art” is also a form, a form into which we channel our creativity. Art, as we know it in the WCM world, has an even more specific, civil value, which we will discuss later. “Creativity” distills...

Sep 28th

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Sep 27th

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Sep 27th

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Sep 27th

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Define Art (#1)

The artist is resting on his sofa, while I click through his Delicious bookmarks and Google Reader feeds. I think Paul is dozing, but in fact he is only parasympathetic. We hear a gunshot or three. Paul sits up and I feel his gaze over my shoulder at the screen. He is shaking his head. PJM: Do you wonder sometimes, whether there is a point to our persisting? Lately, as with our old friend Jason,...

Sep 27th

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