But I just love it as a medium, as a storytelling medium.
Foster took a philosophical approach, turning to another medium as a diversion.
Now, there's much more of a focus on using the medium as a means of identifying hot new talent.
But now with "Sesame Street" there is an extraordinary attempt to use the medium as a tool of instruction.
Elsewhere, he tended to use the medium as a ground for pictures completed in opaque watercolors or pastels.
"I believe in this medium as a more efficient means of communicating social and political messages," says Bogost.
"She approached the medium as a fine art form," said Daile Kaplan, the director of Swann's photography department.
She chose her lacquered medium as a way to reach the masses, acknowledging that some -- O.K., many -- might show up just for the free nail job.
In essence, Dine, who has been making photographs for the last five years, treats the medium as a form of printmaking, not as a method of description.
The desire to overlook the ugly is a major factor behind the present infatuation with the design medium as a whole.
These shorts aren't traditional cartoons, however, but the work of contemporary animators using the medium as a means of personal expression.
