Re: <documenta X><blast> home

Jouke Kleerebezem (jouke@xs4all.nl)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 01:18:38 +0200

Morgan Garwood <mgarwood@inch.com>:
>> O.K., it has seemed to me that one of the underlying "must have" conditions
>> of art is that it is about something. To be art, it has to have
>> "aboutness".
Alan Jen Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>:
>I think what you're calling "aboutness" is closely related to Husserlian
>intentionality, Schutz' relevance theory, and so forth. I would argue that
>just about anything that has meaning, has meaning-in-relation-to, and this
>is the site or contextualization of aboutness vis-a-vis that anything.

_The bottomline aboutness of art is art_

Morgan Garwood <mgarwood@inch.com>:
>> But, the spectrum of goodness to badness of Quality is one of the
>> central keys in coming to terms with the work. What is it about, and how
>> well does it work at being about what it is about ?
Alan Jen Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>:
>For myself, "quality" carries a problematic of class, if not gender, etc.

_The bottomline aboutness of quality is information_

Jouke Kleerebezem Amsterdam

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