Comment on why not just take a photo? by 1nimra
thank you!
Academia is stuck it the grad school mind set, they rarely are confronted with the real art world. The have the luxury of pissing in a jar or gluing pubic hair on to a sick in the name of art. They do not have to enter or do shows, approach a galleries or sell work. Yes I’m painting this with a wide brush for I know some who are amazing thinkers and doers, but most are conceptualist, not “wrong” but artistic Peter Pans IMHO
I couldn't agree more. As I earned a B.A. in Conceptual Arts some years ago, I can attest that Armin's summary of the "academic" art world, while broad-brush (no pun intended), is accurate overall. If I had to do it over again, I'd have majored in something better. I haven't been into conceptual art for a while now but every so often I get dispatches & apparently, nothing's changed for the better. Such characters don't worry about selling their work or putting it in the kind of gallery Armin deals with. No, what they do is write grant proposals, indulge in postmodernist/post-structuralist thought (academic horse puckey of the first order!), & engage in bizarre behavior in public & call it "performance art" or "happenings". If you've ever heard of, say, Chris Burden or Joseph Beuys then you know exactly what I'm talking about.