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Art or Not?
Politics & Art• What is politics?• What qualifications does a work have to meet
to qualify as ‘art’? – What’s the difference between popular culture
and art?• What is the difference between art and
pornography/ smut?• What purpose should/does art serve?• How is a value put on art?
Tony Cragg’s Axehead, 1982
• Consists of 49 separate objects • Arranged on the floor to form the fan-like
outline of the head of an axe• A ‘study of the relationship of the part to the
whole’• Idea derived from particle physics • Artist trained as a scientist; complains that
science lacks images for its theories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHxi-HSgNPc
Scene from American Beauty
“Sometimes there is so much... beauty... in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."
Weaver’s FoundoukFez, Morocco
Nature surrounds usSoft, softly whispers the windListen closely, breathe
Georgia O’Keefe, White & Blue Flower Shapes, 1919
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2zcLBr_VM
John Cage, 1952, classical musician
Nobuyoshi Araki, ‘Turtle Tied’, 2006
Science Daily, (10/27/08) Picture from article entitled ‘Orange Peel Can Help Clean up Dirty Water’
Titian’s Venus of Urbino, c. 1510
Moche Warrior, circa 500 AD
Robert Mapplethorpe , Phillip Prioleau, 1980