On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
But they can't accommodate the kind of aesthetic immersion which
good paintings and drawings can.
Not because they offer less of an opportunity for "filling-in" but
because the photographer cannot draw a line or fine tune an edge,
hue, or tone.
That's like saying that a tuba cannot produce the languorous sound of
an oboe--not because a tuba offers less of an opportunity for filling
in, but because it cannot draw out a seductive note or indolent tone.
Photographs can produce effects that paintings and drawings cannot,
and can "accommodate the kind of aesthetic immersion" that good
paintings and drawings cannot. This is not a new discovery.
Sculptures can produce effects that paintings and drawings cannot, and
can "accommodate the kind of yadda yadda yadda" ...
Dances can produce effects that paintings and drawings cannot ...
Symphonies can produce effects that paintings and drawings cannot ...
Let's play, yet again, another round of "Two Degrees of Separation,"
in which learned contestants see how long they can keep a discussion
on a specific art-related topic going before Burninglogic drags it
back to "How modernism has debased art."
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