In this case I agree. Boris Shoshensky ---------- Original Message ---------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: rules Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:10:22 EDT
THERE, LIKE, AIN'T A CHANCE IN HELLSVILLE THAT ANY TWO OF THE HALF DOZEN OR SO LISTERS WHO HAVE POSTED ON THIS 'RULES' THREAD HAVE IN MIND NOTIONS THAT ARE EVEN SERVICEABLY SIMILAR, YET EACH OF US USES THE WORD, 'RULES', WITH THE ALMOST UNQUESTIONED ASSUMPTION THAT ALL THE READERS WILL ENTERTAIN THE SAME NOTION AS WE HAVE WHEN WE WRITE, AND ALL OF US WHO READ THE WORD ASSUME WE HAVE A CLEAR IDEA OF WHAT THE POSTER "MEANT" BY IT. > Kate wrote: > > > Rules don't apply to a lot of today's Western art, > Michael Brady responded: > > Rules apply to everything, but they may not be widely held or honored > rules, > or even widely known. And rules apply principally to the production of the > work. Rules govern how the work is made; viewers learn and adopt a similar > or > congruent set of rules to interpret and parse the works when they see > them. > > > > but even there you have to know the rules in order to ignore them. > > Only if you want to get credit for ignoring them! You can be blissfully > ignorant of a given rule and just proceed as if it weren't there (which, > when > you think about it, is true). > > > Works that break rules" still observe their own rules (or more precisely, > the > artist still follows his or her own rules of production). Sometimes > artists > induce a state of disorientation so they can begin a work without imposing > any > preconceived constraints (i.e., from canons or doctrines or "rules"). > Breton > and the Surrealists advocated such a strategy of inducing hallucinations > by > various means, and they also performed Exquisite Corpse exercises in order > to > disrupt the organized flow of a drawing or story. > > But in the end, all works are subordinated to the artist's own set of > production rules, regardless of how idiosyncratic or wholly conventional > those > rules are. > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady
