I think it's fine to promote your own taste. But do your choices match those of the mainstream? I've always agreed with the view that all options (all styles and tastes) are always present and competing for mainstream attention. However, certain social/art forces are also always dominant and will run their courses. The question is how relevant are they to the social/art reality --as examined by other means-- and how well do they counter the claims of those other options? There is a personal taste and a "historical" taste always in some dialectical or even paradoxical relationship. In today's art scene, the personal is out, the historical dialectic is in.
With the growing influence of the "flat world" of wireless technology it seems that more and more value is given to the artificial sharing of global "discourse" and less and less to the actual sharing of lived experience. In art this seems to be augmenting idea art, conceptual and purely stylistic trends that don't require any personal taste or sharing of lived experience in terms of place and context. Thus the kind of art and taste that is "out" is that which relies on the individual experience. This alienation of lived experience has distanced art from actuality and has replaced it with the mediated world of "global" imagery. The end result is the domination of truly dehumanized art...indistinguishable in content and appeal from brand-name consumer products. WC --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Chris Miller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: competent people with discerning taste and knowledge > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 6:42 PM > My mistake -- it should have been obvious to me that only > Brady would feel > that the topic of masturbation was embarrassing enough to > aggressively joke > about it. > > Well --- it doesn't embarrass me -- nor does promoting > the things I like and > why I like them (i.e. promulgating my taste) > > I think that's the kind of contribution that all of us > can make to our > culture. > > **************** > > > >Brady is the jokester here. He's the one who made > the hairy palm quip. I'm > way too serious -- philosophical, intellectual, spiritual > -- for that sort of > thing. > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click to compare life insurance rates. Great rates, quick > and easy. > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/PnY6rc1kRj6smTyslh3yM1atZQtcnI > W7EwJ9TDYyBBEmLdXY1W48c/
