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DA On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:35 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek, why again and again you are trying to remind us that your notion of > beauty is, lets say, shallow? > Boris Shoshensky > > -- "Derek Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Re: '> I guess you're right, Derek -- there's no way to prove that > that there can > > "be a thought without any way of embodying it - any way of expressing it". > -- > > although that would be different from claiming that there have never been' > > This is not quite what I said. I said it was not a question one could > answer by introspection. > > RE: '> But I'd still like to know --- what thoughts went through your > brain while you > > > > were looking at some of those Goya prints in the exhibit you recently saw?' > > Mainly how impressive the prints were. That, surprisingly, it wasn't > the Disasters of War that drew me the most but the Caprices and the > Disparates. Especially some of the latter. Like entering a world of > ... horror? But not a fantasy world. A real world. And how laughable > it would be to try describe any of them, especially the Disparates, in > terms of the notion of beauty. And what a pity it is that aesthetics > is still so much in the grip of that kind of thinking. And that that > is probably one of the reasons why it often seems so remote from the > world of art. Things like that. > > Not sure why you think any of this might be relevant... > > DA > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I guess you're right, Derek -- there's no way to prove that that there can > > "be a thought without any way of embodying it - any way of expressing it". > -- > > although that would be different from claiming that there have never been > > unexpressed thoughts. > > > > But I'd still like to know --- what thoughts went through your brain while > you > > > > were looking at some of those Goya prints in the exhibit you recently saw? > > > > Just pick one -- and tell us what you were thinking. Or -- were your > thoughts > > so unimportant to you -- that you've already forgotten them. > > > > Your answer might give us a handle on a number of issues that you've been > > discussing. > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > Click here to find the perfect banking opportunity! > > > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/Ioyw6ijm81AGXOBJm300e8GuJHU0so > > P7axr0CizxHtOApB0q4ywtGc/?count=1234567890 > > > > > > > > > -- > Derek Allan > http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm > _____________________________________________________________ > Click to make millions by owning your own franchise. > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2221/fc/Ioyw6i4t16mDzEEs8x6saNjV4PCEJs > BLfeTKvvfiV0k0WfFtjXRCIk/?count=1234567890 > > -- Derek Allan http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm
