Does anyone else have any personal examples of text changing your mind about how you think about some artwork, recording, or book?
Has a text ever changed how highly you value any of the above? I can't think of a single one. Indeed, it's the usually the other way around -- i.e. my experience with the artwork affects what I think about a text that refers to it. ***************************************************************************** * Thank you for your last response, Imago Asthetik -- I'll respond to it tomorrow. Meanwhile, I wonder whether you might elaborate on the following: "A number of Adornos writings have changed theway I look at art. I remember the lists brief discussion of Jay Bernsteins discussion of Dutch painting, which changed my mind about it. Greenbergs New Lacoon prompted me to rethink several points." Could you fill in some details? Like "Before I read Jay Bernstein I saw Dutch painting as 'A' -- after I read it, I saw it as 'B'" And especially, can you say something like "Before I read Joe Smith I placed the aesthetic value of X over Y -- but after I read him, I valued Y or X" Have your experiences of change been anything like Michael's ? He recently wrote: "Speaking only of my own experience, which I think is pretty universal, I can grasp and see so much more of any work of art when I have learned more about its making and its historical and cultural context. I was never much of a fan of El Greco--too much dark stuff and those elongated figures--until I studied some art history. Then when I saw my first El Greco (in a big show at the National Gallery in the 80s, after many of them had been cleaned), they took my breath away. Gone were my misgivings about the dark, tenebrist palette and noodly anatomy." Where it seems that the books he read gave him permission to ignore certain questionable misgivings that he had before he saw the actual paintings. ____________________________________________________________ Click now for great quotes on affordable mortgage insurance policies! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxQwQFx6xpTuoGgSB1qTA6330 ClGavMGqyDl6GRLLw9bSLcGEwcIPe/
