Lyla on wed 20 aug 97
and
>the best of all is the intellectual snobs that make junk, and try
>to convince us with their mouths that it has value. but it is
>so nice that we have eyes, for we can see.
>mel
>
>http://www.pclink.com/melpots
>
I agree that from what I can understand, post modernism isn't anything
except intellectual elitism. but, when i repeated this to a friend (who
learned about it in art classes), he said, we can see with our brains as
well and that there is some stuff out there that is definitely not junk.
Still trying to see.
Lyla
Lee Love on thu 21 aug 97
Hi Lyla,
"Knowing" comes from more than just "seeing." The dark side of
education is how it can limit what you know by indoctrinating you and
giving you a language that isolates you from the rest of your
experiences.
I think the difficulty with much in our modern society, especially in
art, is that many things are reduced to "appearances" without thought of
the substance behind it. I heard a great lecture by the late philip
Rawson on this subject when he spoke at the Walker Museum as a part of a
series put on by the Northern Clay Center. Here is a quote from his
book _Ceramics_:
"To create a concept you must leave the sensuous multiplicity of
reality behind." Ortega y. Gasset.
The main tool of reductive thinking is sight. The main thing
that sets ceramic work (and all craft work in general) from other art is
that it is art that, both in its functional and non-functional forms, you
obtain much information from by touching, holding, hearing and even
tasting the work.
Lee in St. Paul, Minnesota USA
http://www.millcomm.com/~leelove
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On Wed, 20 Aug 1997 23:43:45 EDT Lyla writes:
>I agree that from what I can understand, post modernism isn't
anything except intellectual elitism. but, when i repeated this to a
friend
>(who learned about it in art classes), he said, we can see with our
brains
>as well and that there is some stuff out there that is definitely not
>junk.
>
>Still trying to see.
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