ART.Love.Spirituality.Oneness
what art does – an unfinished theory
BRIAN ENO AND BETTE A. Faber, 2025.
“Brian Eno is a British artist, musician and activist. He has made music and visual art for five decades as a composer, producer, collaborator and individual artist. He is a founding member of EarthPercent, a trustee of Client Earth, and co-founder of HardArt.
Bette A.*is a Dutch artist, novelist and art school teacher. Her previous books include Rus Like Everyone Else and What’s Mine. She is co-founder of the Heroines!Movement. “
*Bette Adriaanse
I have just had this book delivered and I was surprised. I thought it was, being a Brian Eno book [ I don’t know Bette A. ] bound to be a big tome. It is tiny. Hard back pink and white and tiny. It’s easy to pick up and read. It’s not a compendium of Oxfordesque art definitiions and endless philosophical pontificiations.
Is it like Eno’s music?
It’s growing on me.
It celebrates all art and that art is everywhere.
“making art seems to be a universal human activity. All over the world, people can be found creating and wearing elaborate costumes pretending to be something else : a dangerous animal, a king, someone from the spirit world.
All over the world people decorate themselves and their surroundings with patterns, shapes and colours, and construct references to places, people and events that aren’t now and here. We don’t know of any human group that doesn’t do art in some form or another, and usually in many different forms.
We could say that art is one of the key attributes of being human, like language. It’s easy to understand why langauge is so universal, but we don’t seem to have a very clear picture of why art should also be.” p2, 3.
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