Lari Pittman: Aesthetics | Art21 "Exclusive"

Episode #034: Lari Pittman draws connections between aesthetics and feelings of safety, at his home and cactus garden in Los Angeles.

Lari Pittman is featured in the Season 4 (2007) episode Romance of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS.

DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment!

Learn more about Lari Pittman: http://www.art21.org/artists/lari-pittman

VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins & Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mark Sutton.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• contemporary
• visual
• art
• artist
• art21
• PBS
• television
• TV
• series
• documentary
• 21
• century

[jgrzinich]

managed aesthetics creating an area of safety?? hmm....

[flammableboyant]

Hey, very interesting. The idea of aesthetics as a control factor leading to a sense of personal security. Considering that the feeling of safety and control is extremely important to one's well being, it follows that art assembled to induce such a feeling could be considered as art of high value. Control the external as a an adjunct to controlling the internal.

[chicagoarts]

The video seems a bit removed and pompous. Hey, I am adding a live interactive segment to ChicagoArts; I hope you will be able to attend.