You folks just won't deal with ideas. I was imitating Kant by denying art relevance and purpose. Don't you think it's useful to consider what Kant thought about aesthetics/art? You keep going back to personal bias, solipsism, as if any idea threatens your identity. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: ARMANDO BAEZA <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, December 23, 2010 2:12:06 PM Subject: Re: "Is today's [art?] irrelevant?" it's relevant to the creator,if no one else. mando ________________________________ From: William Conger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 9:07:54 PM Subject: Re: "Is today's [art?] irrelevant?" If it's art it's irrelevant. Art, as the aesthetic, has no purpose and value. WC ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 7:25:01 PM Subject: "Is today's [art?] irrelevant?" Has art become like fiction" a poor relation of its ground-breaking modernist forebears?: http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/0730/Is-today-s-fiction -irrelevant
