File puptcrit/puptcrit.0912, message 126


From: "Robert Rogers" <robertrogers-AT-robertrogerspuppets.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:25:21 -0500
Subject: [Puptcrit] Is it art?


Better yet, should it be in a major art museum?  I mean, I viewed the Tim Burton/Museum of Modern Art website and looked at videos in which various artisans described how they fabricated 3D versions of Tim Burton's sketches for the exhibit.  Is that then his artwork?  Theirs?  A collaboration?

There was a play a few years ago by Jon Robin Baitz about an aging artist (played by Donald Sutherland) who has been telling his assistant what to paint aqnd where, rather than doing it himself.  The issue was about who deserved the credit.

I don't have the answer.  Plenty of artists work with assistants, and many who design statues or giant works for outdoor settings, for example, have them reproduced by artisans.  Calder did.  Leonardo Da Vinci, when he was an apprentice, is credited with finishing his master Verrochio's work.

But there's something about this Tim Burton exhibit that rubs me the wrong way.

Robert Rogers
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