I think the +poetry+ I value is mainly made by inside-outers.
2009/6/30 Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> Alison, it is not a question of who is doing the exclusion. Strictly
> speaking all art is outsider, however, the Postmodernist version of
> Romanticism assigns outsider to the categories of inside and outside and
> as such sets up a range of categorical imperatives. Visual perception is
> a result of complex haptic feedback circuits (as I understand what you
> are saying.)
>
> Maturana in biology on the frog and the fly has had an impact on
> understandings of visual also.
>
> What is still not greatly understood is that photography is a Modernist
> invention, BTW.
>
> On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 17:03 +1000, Alison Croggon wrote:
> > Hmm... Aside from optics being traditionally part of sensation, rather
> > than something else, that argument seems hard to sustain in the
> > digital age where the image is hardly any more evidential or
> > stable...again, I wonder who is doing the excluding, barriers would
> > shift where you look - others would claim (that would strike me as
> > more common) that it's painting itself that's marginalised...In any
> > case, outsider status is itself in some cases a privileged position if
> > you're looking at art...
>
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