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June 09, 2005
The photograph is almost painterly:
Ken Duncan, Snowy River Country, Victoria
This kind of work is outside the modern art institution as it is placed way down in the visual art hierarchy. It is not produced as a self-conscious photograph destined for inclusion in a museum's cabinet of photographic art.
So it avoids being addressed by art criticism of the curatoriat or art-historical professoriate. The photo is what you see. There is no need for art criticism to tell us anything about our experience of the work.
Most art is usually verbiage produced by babblers, anyhow. The critics are the enemy. The philosophers of aesthetics have already disappeared long ago.
Are not art works embodied meanings? Does this art work embody the gap between aesthetic beauty and utility (a paperweight, urinal, sparkplug) as a deep truth?
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