COP essay question/ decision making

Ater today's session I've decided upon a definite route to take my investigation this year. I want to do something (the details still need fine tuning) about the inaccessibility of 'art' and the domesticity of 'craft'. Craft seems to be thought of as the suburbs of art by certain 'art world' minds, and I take real issue with this. I got my inspiration for this by re-listening to Grayson Perry's 2013 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures, 'Playing to the Gallery' (which Perry, rather gleefully points out, are called "playing to the gallery" and not "sucking up to an academic elite"). Furthermore, illustration inhabits a weird space between 'art' and 'craft', somewhat straddling the boundary between the two. I think this will be a very exciting and interesting topic to study.

Richard seemed really enthusiastic about the idea and gave me some very good tips on two texts to read, "Network: The Art World Described as a System" by Lawrence Alloway, and "The Artworld" by Arthur Danto.