There are times when my mind buzzs with ideas and thoughts especially after researching and rereading some article that I am trying to engage with or fathom (!!)in order to then incorporate them into ideas for art…Because my chosen subject has been art in the context of social meaning -as social comment, I have frequently questioned my motives, ethics and understanding of this subject matter particularly as It concerns the darkerside of human nature – contestations, because of this it has been fundimental and essential for me to gain insight into artists and critical writers who have tackled these issues within their work…reflecting back on my dissertation I started thinking of various aspects raised and researched within the study that debated the ideologies concerning art for arts sake over art with social meaning,…(I do feel and appreciate the relevence of both forms, in the pursuit of visual communication, both are essential and have a place). In Has Modernism Failed? Susie Gablick raises the question with a quote by Arnold Schonberg, “Nothing done for a purpose could be art.” p.20 indicating here as I understand it, art with any purpose can’t essentially be art…having used Gablicks book in my dissertation I felt Gablick explored ‘arts purpose’ well through looking at art for arts sake and art with a social meaning; one can conclude both have a purpose…Gablik, Suzi (1984) Has Modernism Failed ? London: thames and Hudson pp.20-35.
