Thank you - that is exactly my point - PoMo makes art real and can only do so by means of a vulgar materialism and irony - or it makes art political by removing it from the field of the contemplative and making it aesthetically conceptual Chair, Visual Arts and Technologies The Cleveland Institute of Art
> From: William Conger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:57:55 -0700 (PDT) > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Presence > > I agree with Saul on this point. What Saul says about > art as an act of faith is close to or the same as > Kandinsky's notion of Internal Necessity, a spiritual > manifestation of the ineffable self. This > manifestation can't happen without belief, or faith in > it. This is the underlying conceptual position in > modernism, before the era of pomo excess irony that > gutted such individualism and replaced it with > cultural icons. > > Or, perhaps I misapply Saul's remarks. > > WC > > > --- Michael Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jun 27, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote: >> >>> Nope - the idea that art exists is an an act of >> faith and that someone >>> called an artist may actually manifest that which >> maybe identified >>> as art is >>> no different than the faith that a priest can >> channel god >> >> >> I don't grasp this. Can you exapnd? >> >> >> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | >> Michael Brady >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean.
