Doesn't anyone here agree with me? Art/literature teachers are always teaching taste - or as A.A. puts it: "What does the art teacher see? The pupil's mistakes"
Even if they deny it - even if it's a taste for certain certain theories instead of certain kinds of images - and even if all they're teaching is a tolerance or relaxation rather then a refinement of discrimination. When Brady's professor tells the fourth year student: "The hands you painted look like flippers" - he teaching a taste for hands that look like hands. (apparently an important issue here on A-L -- as expressed in the recent dismay over the hands and feet of Gr|newald's Christ - and thank God Gr|newald never learned how to do them right!) And if Brady's professor is concerned that a viewer "will not be able to discern a hierarchy by responding to the shapes in the picture." - he's teaching a taste for such a hierarchy - otherwise, why raise the issue ? If Boris is teaching his students to "see all the colors or shapes etc. on the surface of the model" -- he's teaching them that it's less important to "think apple or flower" than to think "form, color, value" Why ? because he's teaching a taste for resemblance to nature.(or as Goodman might say - he teaching a preferred set of codes) When Tom is writing about how to allow a novel to get written -- doesn't he have certain ideas about what would make the resulting text attractive to a publisher? (i.e. conform to the taste of a current market for such things) ? Wouldn't the jacket of his book remind us of such expertise by relating his success as an editor? Preferences for images is primarily about taste -- unless those images are expected to relate information about a specific question that needs to be answered or job that needs to get done -- as in science or technology. And our world privileges science/technology above everything else. Which itself is a judgment of taste -- a taste for the white coat of the lab technician - rather than the elegant weeds of the courtier. Everyone has to be a scientist -- if not of astrophysics - then of socio-economics, or neurology, or mass psychology, or -- gasp -- consumer marketing. I find it all to be either ludicrous or disgusting -- but then I have different tastes. I have a taste for beauty. _____________________________________________________________ Click here for free information on how to become certified as a project management professional. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2211/fc/REAK6ZqYFirvMPr9tQcuomX9OMgfKo Df0jvvb6BjnAKqBMtS59jHXe/
