Good quote, for a change. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 26, 2012 3:00:52 AM Subject: Re: is list dead? On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:30 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > ...The visual arts are alone among the arts in degrading skills and > history of the > field to the vanishing point. All other arts still rely on rigorous skills, > historical forms, consensual interpretation, and audience appeal. > > No one knows why visual art has abandoned its standards but anyone looking > at > today's visual art knows that no standards is the name of the game. it > has a > huge number of advocates. Skills are out. Some art schools say they teach > only > to "to the wrist" and focus instead on ideas and theory... - The mind resorts to reason for want of training. Henry Adams
