[Frameworks] Letter / Context

[gregg biermann]

Gawthrop, Rob wrote:
> Gregg/Steven
>
> Art cannot exist automonously, there will always be contexts (and 
> agents).
>
> Don’t your “categories” come within aesthetics? i.e. as per Jacques 
> Ranciere’s definition:
>
>     “In its broad sense, however, aesthetics refers to the
>     distribution of the sensible that determines a mode of
>     articulation between forms of action, production and thought. This
>     general definition extends aesthetics beynd the strict realm of
>     art to include the conceptual coordinates and modes of visibility
>     operative in the political domain.” p82 Ranciere J. /Politics of
>     Aesthetics/, 2006, (Continuum, London)
>
>
> Rob
>
>
> On 23/07/2010 21:36, "gregg biermann" <mubbazoo at optonline.net> wrote:
>
>     Steven,
>     Isn't the fact that something is considered art at all strong
>     evidence of a context? All of the questions about categories
>     (genre, tradition, medium, style, movement) or aesthetics that are
>     being discussed seem to come from that understanding.
>     G
>
>     Steven Gladstone wrote:
>
>         Does Art need Context to be Art?
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