No one can guarantee that an artwork will be experienced as intended. Not then, not now, not ever. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 12:57:27 PM Subject: Re: Reading Duton: Chapter 3 : What is Art? In a message dated 11/8/09 8:20:28 AM, [email protected] writes: > 12.Imaginative Experience - "perhaps the most important of all > characteristics > on the list". 'All art happens in a make-believe world -- in the theater > of > the imagination" - separate from "normal, human conscious life", > "de-coupled > from practical concern" > > what about all those religious pictures which were intended to help with the meditation on the Sacred ? Not make believe,not separate from normal human consciouness,not decoupled from practical concern. Or not if one remembers that religious awareness was believed to be real,part of one's existnce at every turn,and of immense practical moment due to the assumption that hell was real. Incidently, the satisfied feeling you get when looking at the Carravagio is not what is meant by meditation. Kate Sullivan
