ART 308 at Saint Mary's College of Maryland with instructor Fereshteh Toosi

Saturday, February 3, 2007

So, Why Is this Art?

The Walker Art Center in Columbus, Ohio, has a great collection of works and info for those who might be asking: SO, WHY IS THIS ART?

Their resources include background on work by Gabriel Orozco and Adrian Piper, as well as this piece by Jana Sterbak, a dress made out of meat.

2 comments:

Matt said...

i found this site to be very interesting. to combine abstract art with non abstract art, and then ask why the whole group can be considered artwork is a bit of a peculiar gesture to me. it is a lot easier to appreciate some artwork with the little blurbs they have about the artist, and why the artwork was made.

Lucia Fontana, for example. it was a little hard to tell what the artwork was, but after reading about cutting the canvas, and introducing physical 3-D space into a 2-D image, it made a lot more sense.

Fereshteh said...

Matt, do you mean that asking if it is art was strange, or the fact that they try to compare abstract and representational work? Is there a difference in how we can talk about them?