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GradStatementIdeasFrom Peter Korn's "Education of a Craftsman": "The distinction between the information an object carries and the meaning is critical. Information is intrinsic and permanent. It resides in the objects physical characteristics which are an unchanging record of thousands of decisions made by its maker during its creation. Meaning, on the other hand, is extrinsic, and subjective. It resides in the minds of the respondents, and will differ among them , just as two readers may arrive at divergent interpretations of the same text."
There is also external knowlege known by the respondent (viewer). This can be knowledge of the artist such as the culture it was made in, the age, the history of the artist. Examples of this are knowing of Chuck Close's visual impairment, knowing that Mimbres Indians main "canvas" was the inside of a hemispherical bowl, or that Robert Arneson felt highly influenced by Peter Voulkos. Most often however it is just having seen other works by the same maker. This raises several questions about a work of art, or an exhibition, or a detail of a work.
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