Alfred, Oh'm'god! Ananda Cooramaswamy, my favorite obscure art philosophy guy. Just loved "The Transformation of Nature in Art. No photography is not art - it's a medium. So quit messing with it's name. AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book, 4Th ed. Now an E-book. http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: What is a photogrpah? > From: Alfred Tay <alfred_tay@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, March 05, 2006 10:48 am > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > but then this begets the question... is photography art? > > this certainly does not answer what is photography... it only dwells onto > the properties of what constitute art... you can go through plotinus, plato, > st augustine and st thomas aquinos... you will ultimately find that art is > the economics of excess... but then that is a whole other can of worms... > > if you are interested in the spirit of form... read ananda cooramaswamy's > translation of "ching hao's : pi fa chi" a tang dynastry treatise of what > constitutes painting... > > or you can read... Roland Barthes, clement greenberg(i know people hate him > but without him, american expressionism would not have emerged), John > Baldessari, Erwin Panofsky, Jean O Baudrillard, umberto eco and many more :) > > hth > alfred > > >Aristotle said all art imitates action. > >"Not physical activity, but the movement-of-spirit." > > > >By imitation he meant the, ". . . representation of the countless forms > >which the life of the human spirit may take." (I'm taking all this from > >Aristotle's Poetics.) > > > >Aristotle continued: > > > >The arts may be distinguished in three ways. > > > >Object imitated, or the particular action recorded. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Find just what you are after with the more precise, more powerful new MSN > Search. http://search.msn.com.sg/ Try it now.
