The best art always is excessive. A good artist will always go past, way past, the supposed limit of good taste. Look at the best art of any era and compare it to other work of that same era. In its context, it is excessive. If the context is generally bombastic, say, then the 'excessive' best will be spare. And so on.
If Berg would simply reverse all of his assumptions, he'd be in tune with a contemporary mindset. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, August 27, 2012 3:26:59 AM Subject: Re: Aesthetic Ideal On Aug 27, 2012, at 3:33 AM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Do you have one? >> Over time, did it change? >> If so, in what way? > > Shouldn't an aesthetic ideal address the necessity of curbing the desire > for excess and novelty to avoid decadence, decline and demise? No. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
