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The art of publishing

By: Simon Grennan

Simon Grennan on new sites for art.

The history of art is conventionally described as a search for new forms through which artists express their relationship with their humanity, other arts and their time. In this history, the artist’s struggle is characterised as an attempt to map the relationship between these three by creating unique forms representing contemporary culture against a background of universal truths. When properly moulded or focused, this history tells us, these representative forms have the power to contain and transmit the highest aspirations and most deeply significant meanings in the current culture. These forms are art. This history of art is not like the histories of social life, politics, science, literature, economics, or any other history. In its consideration of the object as the carrier of the burden of the meaning of art, this history has been unique in establishing disciplines of analysis and appreciation that routinely ignore everything beyond the relationship between an ideal contemporary viewer and the object as a perfect sublimate of meaning. It has also been unique in creating boundaries between admissible and inadmissible types of evidence in the construction of its singular...

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