I think that if I created a design from my being in a
sentimental moment, I would still call it art, even if
"art" and "great" are subjective words.
mando
On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:46 AM, William Conger wrote:
What great art, literature, music is willfully sentimental? None!
What popular art, fiction, demagoguery, and daily prattle is
sentimental? Most!
Choose sentimentality for its own sake and you choose the lesser life.
WC
--- On Fri, 1/23/09, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Chris Miller <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: The good sort of sentimentality
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Friday, January 23, 2009, 8:13 AM
Michael asked me:
"So, if you're actually interested in the notion
of how sentimentality is
connected to the arts, then why don't you describe what
you mean ("have in
mind") by that term and give a few examples in art,
and the all of us can
respond."
Michael, I'm not interested in "how sentimentality
is connected to the arts"
-- but rather in how those on this list make that
connection -- especially if,
like William, they use it to judge good art from bad.
(though, it appears that
WIlliam would much rather discuss the neurology of judgment
rather than
explaining his own)
And -- as I've said about four times now -- I do not
associate the word
"sentimentality" with either approval or it's
opposite. The Christian
tradition of painting and sculpture feels very sentimental
to me -- the
Chinese tradition of calligraphy does not -- and I greatly
admire both of
them.
What about you, Michael ?
Can you step away from the passive consideration of
"how sentimentality is
connected", and tell us how you would make a
connection ? Do you ever use the
word "sentimental" to show disapproval ?
Does anyone else ?
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