Michael,
i remember discussing this point on the website "Artlives", which
still exist's.
On Apr 30, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Michael Brady 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.
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