On Aug 8, 2012, at 5:41 PM, William Conger wrote:
> This is crap.
> wc
>
Agreed. I particularly abhor the existential assumption behind a phrase like
"THE category of beauty".
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: joseph berg
> <[email protected]>
> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wed,
> August 8, 2012 2:25:05 PM
> Subject: "...The core of the modernist aesthetic --
> a hostility and defiance
> towards all traditional standards of excellence,
> discovered over millennia of
> craftsmanship and reflection; a notion of the
> artistbs freedom as absolute, and
> entirely divorced from t
>
> "...The core of
> the modernist aesthetic -- a hostility and defiance towards
> all traditional
> standards of excellence, discovered over millennia of
> craftsmanship and
> reflection; a notion of the artists freedom as absolute,
> and entirely divorced
> from the ends of his art; and, as Roger Scruton has
> so clearly demonstrated, a
> refusal to apply the category of beauty to
> either the creation or the
> estimation of artwork."
>
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2012/08/the_tyranny_of_2.htm
> l
