Craghead on Theory

For those who still aren't visiting Warren Craghead's blog, Drawer, on a daily basis, I wanted to share that he has jumped into the fray on art theory. He has some interesting thoughts and I thought I would pull out a few quotes that I very much agree with:

"A lot of art today relies on words to support it, to prop it up and give it the legs it should have by itself. This stuff is championed by curators, who are writers and readers and not always lookers, and too frequently good useful philosophy gets lost in jargon and labyrinthine crap."

and...

"What has bothered me is both the reliance on it to pump up boring art, and the use of it a bludgeon for those of us who don't value it as much."

None of this means theory doesn't hold value. But some of us just don't care much for it. What's the problem with that?

Comments

[wwc]

Thanks for the link...

"Can't we all just get along?"