Joi’s Reviews > The Beauty of Everyday Things > Status Update

More poverty fetish. Less consistency between ideas.

Users and used exchanged a vow and the more used object is more beautiful (36). - learning about art from ancestors rather than textbooks preserves something metaphysical (39). - certain locality has certain type of materials that gives rise to original folkart to that space (40).
without exception these art should be made by "nameless craftsmen"(38).

I have to say, so far quite elitist and delusional in the way it proposes this superiority of art over human emotion. In their attempt to make folk art unconscious pursuit, without any of the emotions attached to successful/non successful endeavor-- they deliberately dehumanize the artist. Almost as they are unimportant and can be replaced, and the folkness of their art will be judged by the group.