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conversations with artists

Began in 1998, each issue features in-depth interviews, portfolios and other features.

In the early 1980s, as an artist myself, I was dismayed by the jargon and technical prose typical of the critical writing about art I was encountering. As a philosophy grad, I wasn’t intimidated as much as dismayed. This wasn’t what art was really about, as far as I was concerned, and works & conversations emerged as my own response. In talking with artists I discovered a sense of common ground. A K Coomaraswamy’s statement that “the artist is not a special man, but rather each man is a special kind of artist” is closer to the way I see it. Eventually, I began to include interviews with people not conventionally seen as artists. But, as Ann Hatch, founder (with Robert Mondavi) of the Oxbow school so deeply insists, “creativity is needed in all walks of life.” Let me leave you with another quote, this one from Joseph Beuys: “Creativity isn’t the monopoly of artists, this is the crucial fact I’ve come to realize, and this broader concept of creativity is my concept of art.”

Our print magazine is published twice a year.

Visit our website at www.conversations.org

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