On Jan 20, 2009, at 1:02 PM, armando baeza wrote:
> Chris,
> I gave my reason why i dislike Graham's work, Read it again.
> Sentimentality was very important when I was taking orders
> to preserve it in my work while making toys for good wages
> mando
>
> On Jan 20, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
>
>> If everyone were as reluctant as Mando to elevate one person's
>> feelings above
>> another's and then discuss the reasons, there would be no reason
>> to discuss
>> aesthetics at all(but even Mando is not consistent in that regard
>> -- if you
>> remember his recent dismay concerning the sculpture of Robert
>> Graham)
>>
>> "Sentimentality" has been an important word in the modern
>> discussion of
>> aesthetics -- though I'm not sure it dates back any earlier.
>> (perhaps --
>> because it only became an issue with the rise of the bourgeoisie
>> and the
>> commercialization of high culture)
>>
>> For William, it's still an important word --- for me, not so much
>> -- and
>> apparently the rest of us here don't care much one way or the other.
>>
>>
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