Art as Analysis, as analysis
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Suppose this question. ...lifting of the text/is this copying a fake copy... Is this piece of paper an art work?(s this replica an artwork?
Who is its author?
1 Graphing/Grafting
2Citation
Referencing as language can be
ITERABLE
-to be understood. repeatable
-to create new meaning. openness)
Then n individuals whose status as an art work is established are examined for comparison with this piece of paper.
It may be the case that this piece of paper possess some properties which some of the n individuals also possess. Perhaps some very general property. For example, the property of being a 3D material entity. But whilst this may possibly be counted as a necessary property of a thing being counted as an art work, and certainly of a thing being counted as an art object,
it is obviously not a sufficient property. ("Q2. 2 After the object is established as art, we then compare with other art objects its similiarities.
-How can it thus be established as art?
Wittgenstein’s game
we create a new game, and thus try to analyse what is a game, to find no fixed meaning.
Tautology
Logic is strange here!)
There are millions of pieces of white paper, all very similiar to this one (before this discourse
was printed on it), all of which possess this property, but there is no assertion attached to them that they are to be counted as art works. (Although a formal precedant has been set in early conceptual works for an assertion such as ‘All pieces of plain white paper are to be counted as art works’, to be taken up. Although this possibility would eliminate inter white-pieces-of-
paper comparisons, it would still leave us with outstanding white-pieces-of-paper class to other art works class comparisons.) However, what has to be asked here, and this aside from inter white-pieces-of-paper comparisons, is, what is the especial property (if any) that this
piece of white paper possesses that ‘allows’ it to be singled out as an art work? ...An attempt at perfection that does not exist, like Hegel’s Absolute.
Art as a form of representation of art. The noumena of art so to speak, that of which is unattainable.
Or as Wittgenstein would have it that its meaning cannot be obtained like “game”, “Being”, “knowledge”, “life”, etc they are inpenetrable. EG Art as a concentrated form of activity.
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Is there a property possessed by some things in the world which can be identified as art (as ‘being art’), or even the property of art (this latter of course presupposing that art is a property
of things)?
If art is literally made by the artist, then there cannot have been any art in the world before there were ...mplying art brings something to the party. This is may or may not be in comparison with its medium, but it implies an added ‘aura’. Or nontheless implies medium specificity...
artists. Did someone (the first-ever artist(s)) intend to make art? Or did he make something
which was (somehow) afterwards assigned the status of arthood? Even if the latter is the case,
one assumes that the intentions (perhaps allowing the twentieth century art critic’s oft used penchant for ‘unconscious intentions’) are counted as intentions to ‘make art’. On this vi //objective, func-tional. Subjective response, etc comparison?
synonymous with 'Wittgensteins dame'.//
Q6. Chicken and the Egg argument. But both chickens and eggs exist and chickens lay eggs. Which came first does not prove anything.
The author of a work of art in the past may not have considered himself an artist, but others that give the object art status, give him the status of artist. In this case the ‘others’ have performed the Performative Act (or perhaps it would be considered a collaboration between the two)
Intention X Recognition V
A painter may intend to make but fail to do so.
A recognition of intention?X
one may intend and fail, but recognise another art (intention?)
“No human activity no intention”
whether conscious or not! If we are to be literal
Art could be seen as a concentrated form of activity.
Was the first written word “word” or “writing” was there no music or dance until the concept was first issued? Was it thus delegated between the early tribes of man?