On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the idea of taste re art is dead. Quite dead.
I rather doubt that. Taste is no more dead than classical realism was in Bobbio in the eighth century, struggling, lost, forgotten, but not dead.
And inasmuch as children must (at least figuratively) kill their elders to get their chance to make their own world, today's irony--or whatever--will yield to other interests.
Taste, as such, won't die, either, because people will still choose one man or woman over the others, and expect that their spouse or partner will reciprocally choose them to the exclusion of others, too. Those choices are rarely made solely upon pragmatic grounds (good breadwinner, good mother, travels extensively, etc.), but upon the preferences of living that are based on experience, informed by nexuses (nexii?) of cultural values, and susceptible to training and refinement. That's taste, it's an appetite, not an emotion, and it starts in bed and proceeds to the kitchen, and thence to galleries, show-rooms, and theaters.
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