Describing significant form, to me is more difficult that creating what I would call significant form. Armando Baeza
________________________________ From: William Conger <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 5:57 PM Subject: Re: is list dead? I'm not upset by that. Read my essay. I argue that the word moral and its implications was dropped after the early modernists talked about formalist theory, art for art's sake, the significant form, etc. but their ideas were precisely the same as those embedded in the Beaux-Arts Style. In that way, the supposed break between Beaux-Arts and modernism was as much manufactured as it was true, maybe more manufactured. The art of the two types looks different but was it truly different in fundamental theory? Words like moral became taboo in serious art talk. But to say the same thing with other words, like 'significant form' was accepted, and still is. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: Slostrow2 <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, July 29, 2012 7:46:44 PM Subject: Re: is list dead? Bur levy Strauss would tell us that this is merely a fetishisation of self Sent from my iPhone Please excuse grammar and spelling errors Expect everything - fear nothing - or did I get that backwards Saul ostrow 646 528 8537 On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:29 PM, William Conger <[email protected]> wrote: > For the practitioners of the Style, form could be moral when it idealized > nature, especially the human form. Religion refers to theological dogma and > practice of worship according to prescribed rites. I think the Style was > 'spiritual' intended > > wc > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, July 29, 2012 3:32:12 AM > Subject: Re: is list dead? > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:52 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ...I've written about this topic: Can Art Be Moral Again? (published on >> website www.neotericart.com)... > > > > Once upon a time, wasn't religion the source of morals?: > > - Cut off from the worship of the divine, leisure becomes laziness and work > inhuman. > > John Piper
