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Old May 17 2008, 7:52 AM
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Originally Posted by DrumUltimA View Post
I don't think a performance of 4'33" is much different than a picture of a landscape, or of a nature scene, or perhaps of a busy city street, etc. The photographer didn't make those scenes, he simply captured them.
I think something like 4'33" is more analogous with being in a landscape or standing on a busy street. It's not like a photograph or a painting (with is simply a representation of the moment); but more like, say, a sculpture (to continue to visual art parallel) - you experience the sculpture in real-time, in that moment, and you can affect the sculpture (by changing your position, the sculpture changes too). Things that don't really happen with static arts like a painting.