Studio Sessions

60. Artists Make Ways of Seeing, Not Objects

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One of us has been reading James Carse's Finite and Infinite Games in the sauna, and he reads us what he highlighted. Carse sets a society, fenced in by its boundaries, against a culture, open to its horizons. Artists, he writes, make ways of seeing rather than objects. The Renaissance, in his telling, opposed no one, and one of us takes that as a test for whether an idea is worth following: it…