The Visual Arts and the Future

1. Art as Communication This paper relates primarily to art as a form of communication. Some time ago I defined a visual artwork as a kind of object that contains a message. This definition gives rise to a number of implications. One that is of concern here is that there must be made available a public to view the message in order to attempt to interpret it. And the point I wish to stress is that viewers necessarily make a contribution to any artist's message, since the message is generally incomplete and ambiguous. In Oriental cultures it seems to me that this point is more widely understood

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