PESO:
This is a letter from the New York TImes Book Review. Do you agree that
you can create art only when it's your intention to do so?
To the Editor:
I read with interest Deborah Solomon’s
review<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/books/review/short-nights-of-the-shadow-catcher-by-timothy-egan.html>
of
“Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs
of Edward Curtis,” by Timothy Egan (Oct. 28). Solomon is a talented
biographer — I thoroughly enjoyed “Utopia Parkway” — but she completely
missed the point of Curtis’s life when she referred to him as a great
artist. Though galleries try to promote Curtis’s work as art, it’s really
more ethnographic photography. While Curtis obviously had a strong
aesthetic sensibility, the intention behind his work was documentation of a
vanishing race. You can create art only when it’s your intention to do so.
RICHARD POLSKY
Sausalito, Calif.
*The writer is the author of “The Art Prophets: The Artists, Dealers, and
Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World.”*
Tina
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com
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