It seems Frances' taste is alive. I am all for it ( mission statement). If it fits the taste of persons in charge. Boris Shoshensky
-- "Frances Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frances to Kate and others... The proposed mission statement for this "aesthetics list" promises to be a useful device, but in its initial draft form it may imply several vague things to readers. Some of those things might entail the following points. 01. There now exists an internet address partly called the "aesthetics-l" which identifies a new website as a resource. 02. The key name of the website is the "aesthetics list" which was recently derived from a similar website now defunct. 03. The full title of the "Aesthetics List" includes the suffix "Art and Aesthetics and Philosophy" as a descriptive tag. 04. The list is an open forum and a free arena available to all informed members of the general public at large. 05. The informal list has some authority, but promises not to be tethered or edited nor censored or policed. 06. The persons who join as members are expected to range mainly from being engaged artists to being learned scholars. 07. To join the list as a member requires that a person merely post an originating message to the site by email. 08. All posted messages are published by being sent to the email address of each list member, and are also filed to the list archive. 09. For an existing member to delay or stop such a subscription likely requires a posted notice by them be sent to a head master. 10. The list is an uncontrolled platform used only for depositing and discussing any message online as posted by email. 11. The fixed messages stored in the list archive can be accessed and retrieved by any person or member for any reason. 12. The topics or subjects and their themes with threads that are posted can be generated or altered by any member. 13. The issues posited for address should be treated as academically serious, thus relevant and pertinent to the field of study. 14. The field of aesthetics is held by the list to deal mainly with artistic issues, yet the field is clearly wide enough to embrace other issues that are metaphysic and philosophic and scientific. 15. The study of aesthetics is further held by the list to embrace those aspects of art and other things that are historical or practical or theoretical. 16. This broad domain or realm for aesthetics can also include all the venues and kinds and genres of art, but need not do so to be a viable field of study. 17. The sphere of art is assumed held by the list to range from the fine arts and the applied crafts to the liberal arts and the literary humanities. 18. The main purpose of the list is to provide a virtual place for interested persons to critically assay and analytically essay the ideas posited in the interests of inquiry and research. 19. Searching and finding links to the list on other sites or engines seems sparse, but the list is likely to be promoted in due course. 20. The website and forum is guessed to be owned and managed and kindly operated and served by several members of the list. Kate Sullivan wrote... "This is the planned mission-statement for the web-site. Any thoughts from the members? Aesthetics-l: "Art, Aesthetics, and Philosophy" is a discussion forum devoted to all genres of art, and related philosophy. Pertinence is strongly encouraged, but the format is intentionally informal. The forum is intended to be an arena where old ideas can be reexamined, and inchoate new ideas can be tried and developed under the challenge of a lively give-and-take among informed members. The membership is unusually apt for an aesthetics forum because it comprises not only philosophy scholars but many practicing artists." _____________________________________________________________ Click here for great custom garage plans! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2221/fc/Ioyw6i4tSpbhrznFdleecBovxwtawt 3ApnD3V1KkZIJLVTGyY9U0gk/
