Anodyne
Sunday, June 25, 2006
 
R.M. Vaughan is R.M. Vaughan

Jamie Tolagson checks in from Victoria:

"About that article in Canadian Art: It seems like it should be obvious to anyone at this point that photography did away with the kind of subject-hierarchies that are implied by a phrase like 'garbage is garbage' sometime around the 1920s, if not earlier. The idea that there are worthy subjects and unworthy subjects is so hilariously antithetical to the very idea of art (and especially photographic art) that it seems degrading to even have to respond to such a claim. It's the kind of opinion you'd expect to read in the letters section of the Province, not in a national art magazine. . . .Garbage is garbage? A pepper is also a pepper, that didn't stop Weston from making a photograph of it that most people had no trouble calling art. It feels ridiculous to even type something so self-evident. But why stop there? A flag is a flag, a jukebox is a jukebox, a starry night is a starry night, a human face is a human face! Replace the word 'garbage' with any other word and let the phrase put an end to art history as we know it!"

- posted by cjb @ 9:50 AM


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