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Contemporary Printmaking: When Anything is Possible What is Desirable?
Digital technology has undoubtedly had a huge influence on many of these developments. For artists, especially for young artists having so much predigested visual material readily available on the internet presents new problems and obstacles as well as the obvious opportunities. If everything is wide open, as Arthur Danto calls it “radical openness”, then how do we determine what work is worth spending time with? What is genuine and individual as opposed to a clever pastiche of appropriated images and information?
From my point of view the pertinent questions have not changed: is the work demanding, is the work visually rich, is the work challenging, does the work make me think and is there something magic about it?
When anything is possible, what is desirable?
-Rochelle Toner
