Original Paper
Authorship and categories of art
―Why is it inappropriate to present a Makoto Aida painting in the VOCA Exhibition? ―
2020 Volume 2020 Issue 30 Pages 457-473
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2020 Volume 2020 Issue 30 Pages 457-473
In the VOCA Exhibition 2015, a conceptual artist, Yuki Okumura, tried to submit a conceptual artwork but it was rejected by the committee. By examining the dispute between Okumura and the committee and considering on the history of VOCA and the concept of “flat” in the prescription from VOCA, I pick up some aesthetic questions from this incident; How should we identify the author of an artwork? Is it possible to change the author of an artwork by changing the view on it? After dealing these question, I suggest a principle of limitation on author’s achievement and responsibility: Where plural people are involved in making an artwork, it is not possible to attribute authorship of the work only to a person in a category while recognizing some artistic achievement and responsibility of other person in the same category.
