On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, Murph the Surf wrote:

> Eric Siegel wrote:
> >    Robbin:
> >    As you suggest, conceptual art work may be about the artist at
> >    work, but it sure is presented as a final product in museums.

> What we don't have enough of in the US are places for art like the New
> York Botanical Gardens (where Eric tills the soil). I maintain people
> are as interested in the artist's studio (garden) as in the art
> produced.

Maybe *more* interested -- poysonally I'd much rather look at Joyce's
manuscript revsions of Finnegan's Wake then read the "finished" version --
likewise an artist's sketchbooks or drafts -- Remember that amazing image
of Matisse with the doves in his studio??? -- the De Young ran an Ansel
Adams exhibit a few years ago in which they showed various prints he made
of the same photo (Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico -- I think) showing
the sorts of effects he produced -- in natural history, some of my
favorites are the only half-completed images which are a part
of the record of the (U.S.) Wilkes Expedition (1840's) -- this form of
presentation is particularly helpful in training our kids to be critically
aware of media effects and in showing them that they too have access to the
process of creation...
Tom
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