You know, back in the day, an artist was viewed the same as other craftsmen. Hell, those renaissance fuckers used to wear their lords gang-colours. You got apprenticed, did your journeyman stuff, then went your own way, looking for patronage in whatever form it took.
It's just a job, you know?
Or is it?
Me? Again, dunno. Seems to me that here in the Embarrasment of Riches we live in, we're so overwhelmed with leisuretime so that everyone consumes everything. Art itself has undergone a change in the value we assign to it.
You know longer save up for five years through plauge, Draculas attacking, Anti-popes and drought to go see some hot Glokenspiel playing motherfucker. You turn on the telly, art. You go to the movies, art. You buy a comic. Art. You read a novel. Art. Play a computer game. Art.
So perhaps we should redefine what 'creative' people do. If the word 'creative' send a judder of bonedeep hatred through me like a bell.
Then you get the high-culture lads who think that anything generic can never rise up to art, to muddy the waters. But I think we both disdain that thinking.
I'm trying to remember something - some SF writer had a 'fuck art' manifesto. Let me try and recall.
Tell me something, though - if it's work and focus and technique you admire (and I pretty much wholly agree) shouldn't someone with massive powers in, I dunno, real estate development or stock marketing or banking or some other white collar job be admired the same way?
Do forgive me for going on. You know this shit fascinates.
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Date: 2008-07-31 10:22 am (UTC)It's just a job, you know?
Or is it?
Me? Again, dunno. Seems to me that here in the Embarrasment of Riches we live in, we're so overwhelmed with leisuretime so that everyone consumes everything. Art itself has undergone a change in the value we assign to it.
You know longer save up for five years through plauge, Draculas attacking, Anti-popes and drought to go see some hot Glokenspiel playing motherfucker. You turn on the telly, art. You go to the movies, art. You buy a comic. Art. You read a novel. Art. Play a computer game. Art.
So perhaps we should redefine what 'creative' people do. If the word 'creative' send a judder of bonedeep hatred through me like a bell.
Then you get the high-culture lads who think that anything generic can never rise up to art, to muddy the waters. But I think we both disdain that thinking.
I'm trying to remember something - some SF writer had a 'fuck art' manifesto. Let me try and recall.
Tell me something, though - if it's work and focus and technique you admire (and I pretty much wholly agree) shouldn't someone with massive powers in, I dunno, real estate development or stock marketing or banking or some other white collar job be admired the same way?
Do forgive me for going on. You know this shit fascinates.