Tag: Art

• August 13, 2012

  Inquiry illuminated

  Excerpt from The Art of Inquiry, Chapter 1. * 1. Inquiry Illuminated What is it — Distinguishing Inquiry from Other ‘Genres’ (Methods, Theories) — Why it matters 1.1. Preliminary Definition An inquiry is an unrehearsed genre whose principal aims are, first, to reveal to us what we don’t know but thought we did and, second,…
• November 8, 2011

  3 misconceptions about the making of art

  Yesterday, I set out to sweep away the funding models for the artistic life that have been prevalant, let’s say, from around WWII up to the present. If an individual wanted to lead a creative life and she was coming of age in the post-war period, she was presented with three options. One was Bohemia:…