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as the cold river flows (a group admin) says:
12 Feb 10 -

Sorry for banning some members, but this group is thinking about the question what it is about a photography being art.
Über doesn't want any rules due to the nature of the subject.
Please contribute advisedly. Thanks


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über is about.




Das Über-etwas-sein macht Dinge zu Kunst.
Things become art when there is aboutness. ( Arthur C, Danto, Philosopher ).


Danto said about what is being art, that the pins in his wall may be beautiful and useful but they are not there for meaning something. However, an artwork existing of material pins can have edges of meanings (aboutness, which means the being about something), that can cause a cosmic-religious shuddering of aesthetic reactions.

"Die Reißnägel an meiner Wand mögen nützlich sein, sogar schön, aber sie sind nicht dort, um etwas zu bedeuten, und so bedeuten sie auch nichts. Denoch mag ein Werk, dessen materielles Gegenstück aus Reißnägeln besteht, (...) Abgründe von Bedeutungen haben, auf die ein kosmisch-religiöses Schaudern die angemessene ästhetische Reaktion sein könnte".

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