After reading this shot essay by Ezra Shales, i both agreed with her stance on pottery within the museum setting and the necessity of the hands on experience with in clay, but i also began to think about the hole fine art vs. craft arguments.
She mentions this museum setting, with all its rules and regulations, is taking away from the overall experience individuals should have when confronting ceramics. Yes, i completely agree, but isn't this museum setting with all its rules, how modern society views and deems what is and isn't "Fine Art"? Critiques and artist may have that appreciation but I'm talking about the masses, the people not in the art world, the people that deem art as something on a wall in a museum. To them this tactile, hands on experience may frighten and even scare off individuals interested in that fine art idea. Yes, i think pottery should be used, touched, beat up, and even broken, but thats coming from the mind of a potter. To the outside world "Fine Art " is art on a wall, in a gallery, not to be touched, so what would this do within the world of ceramics. On the one hand ceramics was meant to be interacted with, but on the other hand how will this affect ceramics' place within Fine Art?
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