RE: ' That kind of criticism is not aesthetically based either -- is it? (Or -- at least our locate advocate of Andre Malraux would tell us so.)'
This advocate of AM would want to know first what you mean by " aesthetically based". DA On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That Wall Street Journal essay was not so much a slam on contemporary art > criticism -- as on the contemporary art that it validates. > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120848379018525199.html?mod=taste_primary_hs > > > Is the following really such bad prose?: > > "Bove's 'settings' draw on the style, and substance, of certain > time-specific materials to resuscitate their referential possibilities, to > pull them out of historical stasis and return them to active symbolic > duty, > where new adjacencies might reactivate latent meanings." > > But good prose or bad -- it does not seem to involve an aesthetic > judgment. > (i.e. -- an aesthetically unpleasant painting might offer the same > referential > possibilities as one that is more pleasing) > > So yes - contemporary art criticism is not aesthetically based. > > But what about the criticism related to the great encyclopedic public > collections of ancient/world art that are necessary for every great modern > city to present itself as such? > > That kind of criticism is not aesthetically based either -- is it? > > (Or -- at least our locate advocate of Andre Malraux would tell us so.) > > Is an interest in world/ancient art incompatible with aesthetic criticism? > > > (This might not even be an issue in literature - where there's only a few > people who are able to be involved with the literature of many different > languages.) > > _____________________________________________________________ > Learn to trade futures online and make extra money. Click here to learn > more! > > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijleoc40KVO2wOx9y6oURSnDH > 1BNHRePxKs5gfvc71nzF4sBG/<http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijleoc40KVO2wOx9y6oURSnDH1BNHRePxKs5gfvc71nzF4sBG/> > > -- Derek Allan http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm
