- johnluna said...
- Hi Andre, I don't think that the distinction you are suggesting is possible to make for visual artists the way it might be for a concert performer or athlete. The specific history of painting for instance, has admitted too many examples that dismay notions of amateur and professional categories to be meaningfully redefined. Definition (or its concealment) might be my point here...I think critics often do choose to write about work they think embodies a kind of seriousness as practice, but this is no guarantee that the work fits an a priori definition of professionalism (think of Baudelaire championing caracurists.) I would go so far as to suggest that many critics discover their definition of serious practice through writing about artists that interest them for less defensible reasons.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Re: The Current State of Art and its Writing in Victoria by Brian Grison - comment on Andre Gogol comment
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