Ok, bad garbage in the context Berg presents. Good garbage in the context of formalism stemming from Renaissance art theory. I refer to the 'noble contour' and later ideas of 'significant form' and the like. I wrote an essay on this topic "Can Art Be Moral Again?" in which I reminded art thinkers of the old fusion of artistic formalism with noble and moral aspirations or ideals as exemplified in the Beaux-Arts 'Style". That moral signification of form was dropped when the later idea of Significant Form came into play, and it later became the basis for Greenberg's formalism. In other words, formalism became secularized but has always retained the residual implications of the moral or ethical, or even the spiritual (Kandinsky). Remember the Spiritual in Abstract Painting exhibition of 1985? wc
----- Original Message ---- From: saulostrow <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, August 21, 2012 9:05:13 AM Subject: Re: "The role of art was nobler than mere pleasure because it existed for the purpose of instruction." good garbage or bad garbage? On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:40 AM, William Conger <[email protected]>wrote: > Garbage. > wc > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, August 21, 2012 4:38:35 AM > Subject: "The role of art was nobler than mere pleasure because it > existed for > the purpose of instruction." > > > http://books.google.com/books?id=VWedB7SA-KMC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=%22The+role > > +of+art+was+nobler+than+mere+pleasure+because+it+existed+for+the+purpose+of+i > > nstruction.%22&source=bl&ots=KfUe9jOaph&sig=JGheLlFpSlp8OuIYACOe4lq2SX4&hl=en > > #v=onepage&q=%22The%20role%20of%20art%20was%20nobler%20than%20mere%20pleasure > > %20because%20it%20existed%20for%20the%20purpose%20of%20instruction.%22&f=fals > e > > -- S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS 162 West 21 St NYC, NY 10011 [email protected]
