Games, the new lively art-Henry Jenkins

This Publication by Henry Jenkins Games, the new lively art. Is an application of popular aesthetics to games and there cultural value.  It revisits Gilbert Seldes The seven lively arts (1924) and how it "Might contribute to our current debates about the artistic status of computer and video games." Seldes argued that a primary source of artist expression in america had formed through emerging popular culture such as jazz and hollywood cinema. It also says how critics at the time were quick to dismiss Seldes argument much like todays topic of games emerging as a form of artistic expression. Jenkins concludes that games are in indeed maturing and progressing towards an artist value and that healthy criticism and debate can help drive them foreward.

http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/GamesNewLively.html

http://www.henryjenkins.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Seldes