The History of art and lives of the artists show that it is more. How about spiritual experience? Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Heidegger and Singularity Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:22:50 -0400 And what makes you think art was ever anything other than a carefully crafted artifice meant to pull in its audience On 4/25/09 11:54 AM, "Chris Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: What if art self-reflexively addresses by aesthetic and rhetorical means the conceptions and values most prevalent with in the time of its making within a recursive framework ? Then we get a typical Hollywood movie - carefully crafted to pull in a large audience. I've just been watching a bunch of recent Westerns that came highly recommended to me -- and it was just too painful to watch each of them address the conceptions and values most prevalent in our time and place. (and don't forget about place. The conceptions and values of Americans are quite different from people who now live in India, Europe, Africa, or even Canada) Only one film had any value to me, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", because it seemed to be addressing universal issues of trust, betrayal, and maturity - as might be found in the 12th C. Chinese "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as well ) While it also tried to re-create a language and dramatic space somewhat removed from our own (Missouri, 1880) That was a good movie - perhaps the best Western since "Dead Man". ____________________________________________ 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 ____________________________________________________________ Click here to become a professional counselor in less time than you think. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxaLhDbylx1JmYz1DDimnV8ps DI9rsU23KOQYW4dRGsIWpWyKImm9S/ --
