I asked William:
>>How would you define 'empathy' when you assert that "it's not the majority
case that contemporary art is antagonistic to empathy"?
to which William replied:
>Because the prevailing view is that objects do not express feeling but are
instead make-believe surrogates of feeling.
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What a puzzlement.
Is that distinction supposed to explain how your notion of 'empathy' differs
from that of Lee, Lipps, and Worringer ?
Did they ever mention the "expression of feeling" at all in the excerpts that
were provided by Rader? (wasn't their discussion exclusively about the
response to, rather than the creation of, aesthetic objects ?)
And, if you are willing to speak on behalf of the "prevailing view", could you
tell us whether it believes that feelings can ever be expressed? (by
screaming, talking, singing,dancing, whatever ) Does it believe that all
expressions are make-believe, i.e., none of them are considered true by the
person who is doing the expressing?
(it's so difficult to have a discussion with Mr. Prevailing View himself,
because he's never around to offer any explanations. And yet he seems to be
omnipresent and demanding conformity to his POV)
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