Frances to ManFont and others... There may be some kind of irony here. It seems in my experience that doing art is easy, but knowing art is hard; while doing science is hard, yet knowing science is easy. Also, the things that humans do easy, robotic computers can hardly do at all; and the things computers do easy, humans do with great difficulty. My point to this rambling perhaps is that the site here presumably is of aesthetics, which is mainly a formal normative science, in which artistic issues at best are of marginal concern. The writing of diaries and theories and histories about any worthy topic in any event are themselves nonfictional works of liberal art.
ManFont wrote... Instead of a reading list could we not engage in the actual production of art? We could take a theme and each participating member could choose their medium of choice (painting, sculpture, music, literature, aesthetic critique, etc.) to express this theme. We could then share this body of work and explore its differences and commonalities.
