Tales of the Artisans is a collection of stories about art, art history, exhibitions, galleries, museums and people that invented them. The earliest seems to have appeared 1999 in the book: Collection of Drawings of an Art Amateur (dated MCM) and since then some of them have been published on various occasions. Continue reading “Tales of the Artisans”
Once upon a time, there lived an adventurous young man. Being an explorer and ethnographer at heart, he longed to travel and make great discoveries. Then it happened one day that he heard a tale about some curious developments among the natives of the Old World. A new style in the making and decorating of art objects, it was said, had been spreading among the craftsmen of various tribes. The movement was already dying out, however, and soon it would slip into oblivion. Intrigued, the explorer immediately organized a series of expeditions across the ocean. He visited all the important places, collected paintings and other exotic objects from the natives and recorded the stories they told. Impressed with what he saw and heard, he brought back many artifacts and decided to establish an ethnographic museum, naming it the Museum of Modern Art.
What was Modern Art? 