Today Vi Hart told me of a thought by the great recently deceased anthropologist Ted Carpenter, which she paraphrased as “Artists don’t address audiences, they create audiences”. I spent some time this evening tracking down the original statement itself:<\/p>\n
“Artists don’t address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. That artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.” — Edmund Carpenter, in his foreword to ‘They Became What They Beheld’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
When I think about Vi’s work, or the works of Picasso, or Woolf, or Schoenberg, or Louise Bourgeois, or Jackson Pollock, or other true originals, I realize that this is a nice way to describe the difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment attracts an audience by making people comfortable — by showing people what they were already expecting to see.<\/p>\n
Art creates an audience by making people uncomfortable — by teaching a new way<\/i> of seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today Vi Hart told me of a thought by the great recently deceased anthropologist Ted Carpenter, which she paraphrased as “Artists don’t address audiences, they create audiences”. I spent some time this evening tracking down the original statement itself: “Artists don’t address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. That artist talks to himself out loud. … Continue reading “Artists create audiences”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7075,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions\/7075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}