Art and the Quotidian Object (thoughts)

1. Why must we suppress desire in regard to art? Why must we view it in an disinterested way?

What is the point? I appreciate art that awakens desire and that I can experience with my emotions.

2. "there are 3 different types of interest: ethical, instrumental, and appetitive" p 46

While at the armory show I was asking myself what is it that attracts me to a work of art. What essence must it have to make me want to spend time with it? What is it that gives a work value?

3. "what is being described here is an art practice that tries to circumvent selfish desire, power, mastery, possessiveness_the whole complex of relations that normally governs our lives. This is called disinterestedness." p46

So maybe I have misunderstood what the author of this article meant by disinterestedness. . . I like this definition I think. . .

4. The found object is often an object that has once had a function but in the museum has been stripped of its function, or given a new function as a found object so that it becomes autonomous, separet from the world. In this way we might look at it in a new light, see it differently. But how interesting is this really? There are some cases that I find it interesting. When the artist creates a new composition with it and use the objects in a way that exhibits craftsmanship.