John Granger Philosophy Page. I considered naming this essay Branches of Knowledge or Needless Partitioning . The current fragmentation that engenders the concept of a work of art has long seemed weird to me. Experience is experience. Awareness is awareness.
Activity is activity.
There was not such a well-defined boundary then. The urgencies of a faster pace, as well as competition due to larger cultures, as well as possible cyclic alternations between inspired and functional modes of life, led to more items being created without love, without inspiration. As day to day life consisted more and more of uninspired states of mind, the split into art and non-art became more noticeable. I see the strange concept of art as being tied to integration, integrating the higher into the lower, integrating our minds, emotions, and bodies. Such integration is desirable in endeavors of the mind or of the emotions.