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^Hmmm. I don't think affect is the way I would describe it. I would describe art, in any format or medium or however you want to describe it, as that which makes one look at the world in a different way. Real art evokes ideas and thought. It's a bit of a pretentious viewpoint on my part, but not every painting is art. This doesn't necessarily mean that I de-value what someone has painted, but a simple landscape does not usually make me think differently about my world, it may, but it doesn’t necessarily need to do that. I would classify that as a painting. The question of whether I hang something on my wall can be separate from the question of whether I believe something is art or not. For the question posed here, whether we believe something to be art in written form or not is separate question to the one that asks would we read this and buy this? I probably wouldn’t read this authors work, but it might be art. I might think that Marcel Duchamps and Andrew Wyeth were great artists, but I’d probably only hang a Wyeth in my home even though Duchamps makes me question things more and brings out what art is to me.
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