In a message dated 2/25/10 4:45:16 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Didn't we used to have the ability to search by name of poster, date, > words in > title etc. ? > > All that stuff was REALLY useful. > > When you click on "Refine Search" now, all you get is the FAQ page. > > I'm not sure what you were searching for, Chris, but it (egocentrically) occurred to me you were testing my claim that I'd mentioned the Kivy long before you persuaded the group to try it. So I went to our new aesthetics-l archive, and right at the top in the SEARCH box, I simply entered the title of the book: PHILOSOPHIES OF ARTS. (I'm not nearly so sophisticated as Kate about how to exploit search engines.) When I clicked on SEARCH, three pages of entry titles came up. I find that I wrote a lengthy piece on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 that included this passage: Still, I do frequently buy books by single authors. There's one that's been on my shelf for a year or two that has an intriguing premise -- Peter Kivy's "PHILOSOPHIES OF ARTS An Essay in Differences". Kivy was driven by the desire to see what we might learn by focusing on the differences between the so-called "arts" rather than working on a definition of "art" that selected all and only the pursuits we tend call "arts". However, just now I picked it up and I notice I read the first chapter right after I bought it, and scribbled on various pages a fringe of carping marginalia. Kivy (like Lehrer, though less so) does seem better equipped to talk about specific genres than about philosophy of art.
