On her blog, Sarah asked: Does cake have a place in sculptural studio art?
This reminds me of a debate we had in class a few weeks ago. We were discussing the artistic merit of culinary arts. The official opinion was that it was either not art or that it was a lower form of art because the primary purpose of the culinary arts is to create food for people to eat. Basically, at the time, our judgment was based on the function of food, or in this case, cake. Now, enter Goodman. Goodman asks us to consider when non-art functions as art. Perhaps, that is the basis for viewing a cake as a work of art. Just being a cake does not qualify something as art. Once an artistic cake is cut up and served, it is not art. However, when an artistic cake, such as those seen on the television series Ace of Cakes, is on display before it is served, it is functioning as a work of art, which, according to Goodman, makes it art in that moment.
If an established work of art is destroyed, for instance shredding the Mona Lisa, is it still art, just as it is still art if it is used as a blanket?
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