"because people will > still choose one man or woman over the others,"
But Romeo didn't choose Juliet because he had taste. He fell in love with her. DA ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Taste Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:16:56 -0400 > On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > I think the idea of taste re art is dead. Quite dead. > > I rather doubt that. Taste is no more dead than classical > realism was in Bobbio in the eighth century, struggling, > lost, forgotten, but not dead. > > And inasmuch as children must (at least figuratively) kill > their elders to get their chance to make their own world > , today's irony--or whatever--will yield to other > interests. > > Taste, as such, won't die, either, because people will > still choose one man or woman over the others, and > expect that their spouse or partner will reciprocally > choose them to the exclusion of others, too. Those > choices are rarely made solely upon pragmatic grounds > (good breadwinner, good mother, travels extensively, > etc.), but upon the preferences of living that are based > on experience, informed by nexuses (nexii?) of cultural > values, and susceptible to training and refinement. > That's taste, it's an appetite, not an emotion, and it > starts in bed and proceeds to the kitchen, and thence to > galleries, show-rooms, and theaters. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
