Agree,
If I can find beauty in the jungles of New Guinea and the community
toilets in foreign countries where I have been, everything else is easy.
mando
On Jun 16, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
i quite agree, that aesthetic immersion almost always brings out the
good in the unrecognized.(Mando)
If there's anything good to be recognized.
The most obvious example being the one-person show.
Unlike works in the temporal arts (music, literature, dance etc),
works of
visual art must compete for attention with everything else in the
room, and
when everything else has been made by the same person., aesthetic
immersion
is almost unavoidable.
Pieces always look better in a one-person show than they do when
they are
presented as lonely outposts surrounded by a blank, competing, or
even
hostile environment.
Suddenly, pieces that might have been ignored, stand out as
variations on the
imaginative life of one person.
That's why it's so sad that large retrospectives are so rare --
usually no
more than a once-in-a-lifetime event even for very famous artists
(unless
you're able to travel around the world to wherever one is happening).
And it's even sadder that, unless you're living in the wilderness
or someplace
like the islands of Venice, aesthetic immersion is usually
immersion in drek
-- a total, unrelenting bombardment by the banal, awkward,
incomplete,
obnoxious, garish, toxic, and petty.
It's very important to be able to tune things completely in - or
tune them
completely out -- but this kind of thinking seems to be beneath the
radar of
neuroscience.
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