Quote:
When you judge art, you judge the artist. By definition
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From Keith Johnstone's classic book
Improvisation and the theatre:
"We have an idea that art is self-expression - which historically is weird. An artist used to be seen as a medium through which something else operated. He was a servant of the God. Maybe a mask-maker would have fasted or prayed for a week before he had a vision of the Mask he was to carve, because no one wanted to see
his Mask, they wanted to see the God's. When Eskimos believed that each piece of bone only had one shape inside it, then the artist didn't have to `think up' an idea. He had to wait until he knew what was in there - and this is crucial. When he'd finished carving, his friends couldn't say [he was a poor artist or a nutcase], but only...`There are some very odd bits of bone about these days.' "
Best regads,
Carl