Moralist always when - they have the strength of their beliefs over which allow them to justify all things to assuage their conscience
On 4/30/09 12:44 PM, "Michael Brady" <[email protected]> wrote: On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote: > but Western civilization seems to be the only one that takes the > religious artifacts and practices of others and turns them into art As opposed to turning them into rubble, as at Bamiyan. Which, btw, is an act that actually acknowledged the persistence of religious importance and vitality in the statues--by having infused them with the power of an idol to be destroyed, rather than an image to be reduced to aesthetic evidence. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected] -- ____________________________________________ 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
