In a message dated 9/2/09 12:00:55 AM, [email protected] writes:
> " The point, what > one would have to prove, is that artworks have a unique causal power to > produce a unique kind of experience. They do not possess such a power, > and > so one cannot successfully essay the kind of argument you have outlined > below." > > I believe Arts do posses such a power and produce a unique kind of > experience. > Boris Shoshensky > I am going to have to agree with Boris. The things in themselves may not possess the aura claimed by some but th e purpose behind making them is often to communicate concisely through something seen a particular experience, whenther it is the concept of a powerful goddess-or the pathos of a laundress in the snow. The drawing done by Saul's discovery,leaving aside its pull at the conventional heartstrings, was a very good drawing of snow in a city. Kate Sullivan
