-----Original Message----- From: William Conger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Dec 17, 2010 11:27 pm Subject: Re: the boring false opposition between money and art
I think Ngram is one of the most revolutionary research tools ever! It's really astonishing how we can use words and phrases to discover when large social attitudes and interests change. wc What we can find out is what they used to call the concepts we work with now. It's not so much as that people aren't interested in aesthetics anymore as that they changed the word-art speak doesn't appear until 1980. "modern art" appears first in 1580 as a spike and then picks up in the eighteenth century. elegance descends from the eighteenth century until now-but we still have the concept. etc. Incidentally Ngram goes until 2008. Kate Sullivan
