by Jeremy Miller | 16 December 2010 | Awards, Contemporary
Sounds like a fascinating piece to me, no pun intended. You can read about it here. An interesting conversation which seems to growing from this selection is the question of pushing the definition of art. Sarah Lyall writes in the above NYT article:
“The Turner Prize, awarded annually to a British artist 50 or younger, tends to be won by someone who pushes the definition of “art” in novel and provocative (or derivative and irritating, take your pick) ways.”
I wonder how much this function of pushing the definition of art has become the sole function of art. Though it may sound mundane to some, I believe it would be fascinating to have a CAA panel (or the like) with a variety of scholars discussing this topic. I also wonder if a piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen, or John Cage, would qualify for the Turner Prize (if they were British and under 50).
This is the type of phenomenon I’m talking about:
http://tinyurl.com/2a7hqds
Maev Kennedy begins:
“It is a question that has dogged the contemporary art world since Duchamp put a urinal in a gallery: but is it art?”
I wonder where art is in the expanded field human experience.