Grunt grungt gruntgrunt foohie grunt Chair, Visual Arts and Technologies The Cleveland Institute of Art
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:16:58 EDT > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: "An 'aesthetic experience' MAKES the work 'art'" > > In a message dated 7/23/08 7:05:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> "How would either of us go about showing the other was "wrong"? >> >> Very simple. 'Art' has a history in evolution of the development of >> language >> and selected by those forces by association with a bunch of related things. >> 'foopgoom' has nothing of that, only someones creative ability to create >> dead >> order of letters. >> Boris Shoshensky >> >> Aw, shoot, Boris, do you have any idea how many locutions have been devised > in your time, in the "arts", that all but overnight became accepted as > so-called "words" or phrases that "HAVE meaning"? 'Deconstruction', 'rap', > 'nouveau > roman', 'theater of the absurd'. 'post-modernism', 'sit-com', 'truthiness', > 'bee-bop', 'noir', 'post-structuralism', and on and on. > > When did each of these "become" a "word"? Never. There came a time when some > lexicologists, eager to look au courant, included the locution in their > dictionaries. More conservative lexicologists decided to hold off for a while. > If, > over time, the contemplation of the word stirred a roughly similar notion in > what was in their judgment "enough" readers' minds, they put it in their > dictionary -- and they concocted a "definition", which is no more than a > lexicologist's attempt to describe the notion in the minds of people familiar > with the > usage of the location. Your notion that it then "IS" a word is naive > "ontology". > > > > > ************** > Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean.
