If myth has high artistic qualities, it has more sublime truth then any just factual info. Boris Shoshensky
-- armando baeza <[email protected]> wrote: The dictionary says ; "a myth is a misrepresentation of the truth" Is that not what all art can possibly be? mando On Jan 29, 2009, at 9:18 PM, William Conger wrote: > If it's ironic, you can. > WC > > > --- On Thu, 1/29/09, David Shelby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: David Shelby <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: History of 'Sentimentality' >> To: "aesthetics list" <[email protected]> >> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 11:06 PM >> On this subject, one of my earliest art instructors >> repeatedly cautioned us against sentimentality and as an >> excercise he brought into drawing class several embalmed and >> flayed cats from the biology department for us to draw. He >> said that there was no way we could be sentimental about >> that subject matter. >> Sentimentality seems to have to with content and I >> don't know why you can't make a good work of art >> about sentimental subject matter. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:14 PM, William Conger >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, sentiment is different from sentimentality, as >> modern is from modernistic. And sentimentality is a very >> complicated idea with many facets. One is the replacement >> of reality with myth. Much of art history relies on myth >> and its corruption as sentimentality. One sentimental idea >> in modern art rests on the myth of artistic and individual >> freedom. But in fact the reality is that most art is in >> bondage to some prevailing concepts and their implementation >> in the art discourse and markets. >>> >>> here's a related analogy: >>> >>> At one time in America, before 1865, a huge percentage >> of Americans were in fact in bondage. That's not only >> the slaves but also the native Indians who were being pushed >> into separate reserves. And this doesn't even touch on >> the bondage created by group prejudice against those whose >> ideas, political and religious, marked them as misfits, >> disloyal, dangerous, etc. Yet most of our notions of >> freedom and indiviualism were honed during that period and >> remain glowing today. So it is with art as well. >> That's why we need to continually confront and attack >> the myths that are erected against reality. For me, >> sentimentality in its various iterations is the signal of >> misleading myth. >>> >>> Sentimentality is the pair of rose colored glasses. >> Once you put them on, everything is sentimentalized and myth >> becomes the new reality. >>> >>> WC >>> >>> >>> --- On Thu, 1/29/09, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: History of 'Sentimentality' >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 1:28 PM >>>> In a message dated 1/29/09 12:14:01 PM, >>>> [email protected] writes: >>>> >>>> >>>>> (and we might notice that neither Aristotle >> nor >>>> Shakespeare offer any >>>>> social >>>>> or institutional or educational qualifications >> for >>>> their preferred >>>> audience >>>>> of aesthetes) >>>>> >>>> >>>> it is probable that neither Donald Trump nor Maya >> Angelou >>>> would be among >>>> their preferred audience. >>>> Kate Sullivan >>>> >>>> >>>> ************** >>>> From Wall Street to Main Street and everywhere in >>>> between, stay up-to-date with the latest news. >>>> (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023) ____________________________________________________________ Find the writing help you need for any essay topic. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/PnY6rx8QozZza7RfQ62PVepLtt35h1 QbdAlMnC3CSDAM2T9bvO58Y/
