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This web gallery or "webbery" is the work of Robert P. Taylor (see Site artist and creator below) of Teachers College, Columbia University, who both drew the 188 drawings the website digitally presents and constructed the website itself, a webbery designed to exhibit the drawings and to comment both upon them and upon the 161 works by other artists which they reflect. In the context of a website, ArtonArt explores the power of the medium to modify and variously exhibit drawings once digitized (see Site background below). Many of its ideas were first suggested by Webbery (1996-97), the first of several drawing-based sites (see Related Taylor websites below). That website explored characteristics of classifying and arranging visual data in the form of drawings, including some drawings of the art of others, but Art on Art concentrates exclusively on that subject, using a website to display nothing but drawings created by one artist from the works of others. The results of such recycling may (if history is any indicator) be viewed as some combination of the following: (a) debasing the original, (b) mere slavish copying, (c) going in the same direction as, but in some sense improving upon, the original, or (d) using the original as a springboard for innovatively going off in a new direction. Each user must drawn his or her own conclusions about which of these best describes the digital versions of drawings in this site.

To navigate Art on Art, use Index to all Exhibits. In browsing, however, please note that all drawings and their digital reflections are the property of the artist and reuse of any of them requires permission. To seek such permission, or to commnicate with the artist about the site, simply access Comments from the bottom of any page.