call me an atheist

As Lucazoid pointed out Sartwell's theory- that by making a cross-cultural analysis of ordinary activities validates it as art, i am starting to make better sense of where TENDING is coming from. There is also the point about good art and bad art but I like to look at art as believable to an individual or not (not an elite institution). For example in this blog and in Renee's you said this kind of art had been written about a lot and is now highly regarded and accepted as art therefore you yourself have accepted rather than questioned it as art too. Or more likely you have indeed questioned it but have come to a different conclusion to me. I'm not saying it is wrong to call this art, but in this analogy.... i can be brought up in a Christian household, go to church and read the bible, a very accepted and cherished book by all around me and millions around the world, but ultimately I still have the choice whether I want to accept and believe in it for myself. In the classes and readings I have done so far I can't say I'm a believer of this kind of art. It is an individual choice that everyone has the right to have an opinion about. Art is so subjective so to say I'm right, or for you to say I'm not right is not the way of this discussion but rather it's become an insight to how different people interpret controversial works with or without the influence of 'elite critique'.