Aren't we forgetting something - these are the tales that came to frame the western myth of what it is to be human - consequently they would fulfill the paradigm - and we must also remember the literacy rate of the time - how popular was popular culture - if I'm not mistaken at the time folk culture was popular culture - and this stuff was the culture of a rising merchant class
On 11/4/08 12:14 PM, "armando baeza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The very reason why designs with color form and the female forms will always bn the subject for art, for the life of humanity. mando On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:49 AM, William Conger wrote: > And I put Cervantes at the top of the list. Don Quixote, The Man of > Sorrows. Is he a parody of Christ or a parody of man's self > importance? Bawdy, funny, heroic, spiritual beyond any prayer, > soaked in deep muddy bloody dung pools of angst and idealism, what > better tale of humankind is there? > > WC > > > --- On Tue, 11/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: The Long Life of popular art? >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 10:24 AM >> In a message dated 11/4/08 10:41:40 AM, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >>> Popular fiction from the 19th C. -- but anything >> earlier than 1800 ? >>> >> Lots -- Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, >> Andrews, Smollett, >> Burney, Radcliffe, Voltaire, Rousseau, deLaclos, Prevost, >> et al. Still earlier: >> Cervantes, Rabelais. >> >> >> >> ************** >> Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. Check out >> Today's Hot >> 5 Travel Deals! >> (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1212416248x1200771803/aol? >> redir=http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel? >> ncid=emlcntustrav00000001) ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106
