On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:00 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > To paraphrase Whitehead: - An artform** is in its finest flower* before it begins to analyze itself. --------------------------------------- *A *culture is in its finest flower* before it begins to analyze itself.
