Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Islam Stripped Bare: Middle Eastern Art

Some interesting imagery (?) How does culture manifest itself in art? Is it a circular process?

3 comments:

Julian H. Kitching said...

Puppy,

Could you explain a little about what you mean by a "circular process" here?

Puppy said...

By circular I was suggesting the possibility that art is informed by the cultural environment which itself informs artists and their work.

Julian H. Kitching said...

I suspect that the answer must be that such a process does indeed occur. But if so, what would be the implications of this?

Perhaps this would allow us to treat works of art as evidence that we could use to infer knowledge about vanished cultures of the past. But maybe that would depend in turn on our understanding of art - do artists attempt to reflect their environment or, for example, distort it in ways that make people sit up and think? If the latter, how would we as outsiders know how to recognize this distortion?

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