I would have expected a post from him in here somewhere adding this to his list of "People to wish never existed" (wry smile)
And much as it pains me to be on the same side as him, I have to agree, modern philosophy of art has huge problems, though where he and the author want it all retroactively deleted as absolutely worthless, I found there were artists I liked...Dali and Cesan, Klimt....I'm not well versed in names but I know there's a been a fair amount of stuff that was novel and interesting and had heart.
Yes, he says "I'm not condemning the whole genre out of hand" but that sounds about as weak as my conclusion in that essay on Stalin I told you about.
But, I can't blame him for feeling that way really. And I hope he is right and a rebirth of many classical concepts is in progress.
Certainly I'm reminded of that comment "Warhol's art wasn't art objects, but the process of making art" and you commented "the art of fooling people isn't a particularly entertaining one". And you're right, really.
Still, I hope the countermovement doesn't result in a flip flop. I like disonance, murkiness, and such. Just because there was a bizarre coup and arrogant depressed people dominated art is no reason there still shouldn't be some philosophical respect for some of their art...
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Is Uriel Ok ?
Date: 2002-09-02 07:58 pm (UTC)(wry smile)
And much as it pains me to be on the same side as him, I have to agree, modern philosophy of art has huge problems, though where he and the author want it all retroactively deleted as absolutely worthless, I found there were artists I liked...Dali and Cesan, Klimt....I'm not well versed in names but I know there's a been a fair amount of stuff that was novel and interesting and had heart.
Yes, he says "I'm not condemning the whole genre out of hand" but that sounds about as weak as my conclusion in that essay on Stalin I told you about.
But, I can't blame him for feeling that way really. And I hope he is right and a rebirth of many classical concepts is in progress.
Certainly I'm reminded of that comment "Warhol's art wasn't art objects, but the process of making art" and you commented "the art of fooling people isn't a particularly entertaining one". And you're right, really.
Still, I hope the countermovement doesn't result in a flip flop. I like disonance, murkiness, and such. Just because there was a bizarre coup and arrogant depressed people dominated art is no reason there still shouldn't be some philosophical respect for some of their art...
(wry look)