Because the prevailing view is that objects do not express feeling but are instead make-believe surrogates of feeling. wc
--- On Sat, 7/18/09, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Chris Miller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Worringer and his predecessors > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, July 18, 2009, 7:20 AM > >But I'll add that much confusion > exists about contemporary art > because it aims to be outside the familiar. WC > > Which would remove the possibility of empathy, as Lee, > Lipps, and Worringer > understood it, dependent as it is upon "the stored up, > averaged, and essential > modes of our activity" so that "the object is myself and > this self of mine is > the object". > > > How would you define 'empathy' when you assert that "it's > not the majority > case that contemporary art is antagonistic to empathy"? > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get your dream car or truck. Click here. > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxXBj8QNDddv7WTZZZTHEPRqT > JBdly5WBCzK9UgdJhAknTsmAa8mly/
