From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Ars Memoriae: The
Theatre (
1619) -
Robert Fludd “In the
illusory babels of language, an
artist might
advance specifically to get
lost, and to
intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd
intersections of
meaning,
strange corridors of history,
unexpected echoes,
unknown humors, or
voids of
knowledge… but this quest is
risky, full of bottomless
fictions and endless architectures and
counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only
meaningless reverberations.” --
Robert Smithson
The definition of an
artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of
activities to do with creating
art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. Debate, both historical and present day, suggests that defining the concept of an artist will continue to be difficult.
See also