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THIS LETTER IS IN RESPONSE TO GERARD KEISER’S COLUMN, WHICH APPEARED ON THE DAILY’S OPINION PAGE MONDAY AS PART OF A POINT/COUNTERPOINT ON CONTEMPORARY ART.
In response to Gerard Keiser’s piece titled, “Contemporary artists don’t create works ordinary people can understand, but focus on conversing among themselves,”
“...What art has in common with logic and mathematics is that it is a tautology; i.e. the ‘art idea’ and art are the same and can be appreciated as art without going outside the context of art for verification.”
-Kosuth “Art After Philosophy”
Contemporary art and mathematics are similar in that they both represent concepts and ideas. I do not study mathematics, but find it beautiful because it can represent some truth in our world. Contemporary art can function in the same vein. If I was going to write an editorial on math, I would certainly have researched the topic before writing a generalized piece explaining how unwilling I am to investigate something beyond its surface level.
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