[MD] Defining Art (was Churning Point)

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

[Platt]
But noise isn't art. Next you'll be claiming that primal screaming and farting
contests are art forms. What in Pirsig's definition precludes them?

[Arlo]
And who decided that digiderooing is "noise" while Mozart is "art"? You?

You never answered my original question, digiderooing is considered a beautiful,
highly meaningful "art" form in aboriginal culture. Are they merely
"indisciminatory"? Primative? Uneducated? Deluded? What?

Does what is "art" in Platt's world count as what should be "art" for everyone?

By the way, I don't claim anything "is" or "is not" art, by the way. Unlike you,
I am content to let the experience be defined as such by the the
viewer/participant/creator. If aboriginals tell me that digiderooing is high
art, and quite beautiful to them, who am I to tell them it is really only
"noise", that they are "indiscriminatory", and that what *I* find as beautiful
art in sound is really what art is.

Arlo