Yes, Kate, I think you are right to mention a 'convention of abstract art'. But since all art or all 'verity' is abstract, the comment is circular. WC
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, May 31, 2011 7:00:26 AM Subject: Re: Pictorial Realism as Verity Verity comes first and produces conventions? First the verity of art as an abstraction and later the convention of abstract art? kate Sullivan -----Original Message----- From: Mike Mallory <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, May 30, 2011 11:48 pm Subject: Re: Pictorial Realism as Verity ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Conger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 4:37 PM Subject: Re: Pictorial Realism as Verity > Thus conventions produce verity. What produces the conventions? > _______________________________________________________ Pragmatic concerns. When an idea, perspective or mental construction works to explain or describe, conventions are adopted as a way of institutionalizing our collective experience. Thus, reliable experience produces conventions. Mike Mallory
