thinking about arts and crafts

Charles Beckwith

Decoration is a craft. Art is an anti-science. The pinnacle height of achievement in a craft is the perfect modification of a material into a vision. The pinnacle height of achievement in an art is the perfect modification of a vision into a metaphor. Some things can be both. Art cannot exist without craft. Craft cannot exist without art. Yet there is a vast difference from the goals of artists and craftspeople. Craft has a finite goal, the production of something tangible. Art has an infinite goal, the induction of something intangible. Craft relaxes. Art excites.

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Date: Friday, 4. July 2008 20:53
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The Girl
Tuesday, 8. July 2008 10:00

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Okay there. Some interesting ideas. But why why why can’t we get over the idea there art/craft is a dichotomy and not a dialectic? It’s not one or the other. It’s just not. I’ve seen quilts to prove it! :)

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