>but then this begets the question... is photography art? You can always contemplate your Navel as well. -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alfred Tay Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:48 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: RE: What is a photogrpah? 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.
