[Mr Guy]

Heh, I must have made a mental transposition, I read "meaning and content" as "meaning and intent". Call me post modernist, but I'm not huge on preserving the artist's original meaning. I've said it here before, but I do think it's important to remember that until very recently, art was pretty much whatever you could get someone to pay for (ie patronize), and if someone thought your results had enough value to survive, you could live as an artist. Otherwise you get a different job! That's why I focus on photography in terms of the original content, because I think you are free to do whatever you want to change the image until the viewers get the tone you were shooting for in the display of that image, regardless of how the image looked to the camera originally.