TY - JOUR
AU - Martland, T. R.
AB - T. R. Martland A N INTERESTING and I hope fruitful way to begin to understand the distinc- tion between objects or activities which we usually label art and those which we usually label craft, is to suggest that it is very much like the difference between Oskar's visit to Schmuh's Onion Cellar, which Gunter Grass discusses in The Tin Drum, and Faust's visit to Auerbach's cellar in Leipzig, as Goethe presents it in Part I of Faust. This is to say Oskar's visit is to art as Faust's visit is to craft. In order to explicate this suggested parallel all that we need to know about Oskar's visit is Grass's one-paragraph description of the situation. In it he tells us that The host handed them a little chopping board—a pig or a fish—a paring knife for eighty pfennings, and for twelve marks an ordinary field-garden-, and kitchen variety onion, and induced them to cut their onions smaller and smaller until the juice—what did the onion juice do? It did what the world and the sorrows of the world could not do; it brought forth a round, human tear. It made them cry. At last they were able to cry 
TI - ART AND CRAFT: THE DISTINCTION
JF - The British Journal of Aesthetics
DO - 10.1093/bjaesthetics/14.3.231
DA - 1974-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/art-and-craft-the-distinction-Mhlis4DNV2
SP - 231
EP - 238
VL - 14
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -