This volume thus builds upon growing art historical, anthropological, and historical literature that argues that "art" is far from a natural category of human endeavor, but instead represents
a historically specific idea and practice emerging in Europe from the Enlightenment and its aftermath [:] the radical and unprecedented bifrucation of the artist, as the genius who produces things of beauty, from the skilled artisan or crafts[person] who produces useful objects. [what's the use of art?]
"The ways in which decoration and ornament are defined and used vary in different cultures and periods. The Renaissance in Western Europe elevated to supreme status the 'fine arts', demoting handicraft and ornament, and beginning a process whereby these latter were relegated to the status of 'applied arts'... Centuries later in Britain, William Morris (1834-96) criticized the separation of art and craft from daily life and helped to promote a limited revival of medieval handicraft. More recently, a re-evaluation of ornament in art history has begun. In
The Meditation of Ornament, [gbooks] the historian of Islamic art Oleg Grabar discusses ornament in the art of Islam within a broad world-view, ranging from Chinese calligraphy to contemporary art. Grabar proposes that ornament functions as an intermediary, enabling a direct encounter between the object it adorns and the viewer. He provides examples from different cultures, and suggests how terminology expresses the concept in different languages. For example, he notes that
there is a Sanskrit word bhusati, which means 'to adorn'. It implies the successful completion of an act, object or state of mind. Grabar comes to the conclusion that 'in several highly literate and articulate societies, [there is agreement] on the existence of an action that completes something, that makes it perfect. That action is to decorate and the medium of its effectiveness is ornament.'"
[Kazari: Internet Archive]
previously:
Egypt,
repatriation,
repair, I love how
worked-over the first page of Nineteen Eighty-Four is,
secret, ways of
seeing,
lists, equally
an observer and an experimentalist, the only enslaved
artist working in colonial America whose paintings are known to have survived,
a Soviet nonconformist artist, exotic birds β including parrots,
a recurring symbol in historical painting β and gigantic butterflies,
tap, Very
weird framing on this, it's a mix of science [
laminar flow, Bernoulli] and woo [humidity, cloud-cover], the
evolution of word balloons,
care bears forever, suggesting that
video games should incorporate more poetry, Art making is just
one way of many through which we can transmute the unimaginable weight of loss into other forms,
transformer architecture, w
rappers delight, thousands of pieces of delicate glass created by a First Nations artist,
Yhonnie Scarce, to tell significant stories, "poorly"
animated juggling,
esoteric phenomena, works "
in the style of",
Folly Cove,
sketchbook hoboes, the
child in the foreground is shown at work, erasure
in portraiture,
obsessions,
art colonies,
Tolkien,
Botticelli,
celebrities, serious work
attempting to convey a sentiment,
Charlemagne, skull
trumpet, game
as argument, videogames might be art but
can they be literature, a testament to
the power of vision, determination, and the belief that African stories could shine on the global stage, to
combine colors as in a painting, juxtapositions
when you put his pieces side-by-side can be as strange as the items he's composing together in the individual pieces,
rainbow rice seedlings depicting sleeping cats, whiteness (which he describes as
the way we organize and are organized),
twined cattail leaves, web
vibrations to interpret worldly signals,
no viewer should be aware that any art project was happening, Software
Piracy Birthed an Underground Art Scene,
one foot in reality and the other in fantasy,
micro-details of things,
sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of math,
leaf art, an
impresario of the experimental in a city,
Art + Climate,
chef,
vaporous worlds, this
lost copywriting art,
MAiZE, "
influencer artist", the
radical story of Palestinian embroidery, artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that
if it's scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways, it's possible to believe in a
happily ever after for us, most
stylish older people don't follow rules,
recipes knit our past with our present,
hold on, a
canvas for the art of living simply,
craftivism,
ornithological art, a time when
children are living in peace,
documentary, the
most successful flop of all time, The "
fuss" is that all of this AI art is built on the backs of people who remain uncompensated.,
somewhat gothic art direction, painting
transmits rhythm,
Ady Fidelin, the
oldest known depiction of the bee in art is The man (or woman) of bicorp an (at least) 8000 year old cave painting in the Coves de l'Aranya,
cozy game, stained
glass sundials,
Queer independent wrestling is where it is at,
dematerializing, imaginary worlds
and fantastical creatures,
accessibility, Soteriologyβ
that is the branch of theology that concerns itself with salvationβ,
lunar codex, retired
playground animals, wombat β that "
most beautiful of God's creatures",
Clone-a Lisa, Ismail al-Jazari, the "
father of robotics", done with comics but never
art or the revolution, MLB players
develop their autographs,
say gay, not
doing their art was costing them time", a
world-class destination for art, but now we're so much more,
an incredibly ambitious title to pursue when many video games do not try to engage with having cultures or identities outside of the white/western represented, a
sound collage, Uplifting
neurodivergent joy and caregiving are important acts of resistance , Chief
Hacking Officer,
art exists everywhere, the new
searchable (and playable!) web frontend,
all sorts of angles on how games and fashion converge,
one player will make it to The Center,
art helps, strategic use of
nonviolent disruptive tactics, "
moments of being," "
vigorous compression", enjoying
music, an
archivist's dream...
a while until the end of the blues (
400+ pages to go) yet i feel comfortable saying: art means many things to many people