art exist within its histories and those histories are sustained by various validating structures (institutions) - the primary function of these being to maintain the notion that such a thing as art exists
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Very early modernism,say around 1820. Or earlier. Chardin found his own > patrons,didn't he? > Kate Sullivan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Conger <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, Jan 12, 2013 7:57 am > Subject: Re: Can art exist without authority? > > One of the defining features of early modernism was the need for > artists to find > or create audiences for their art. > wc > > > > ______________________________**__ > From: joseph berg <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, January 12, 2013 2:04:00 AM > Subject: Re: Can art exist without authority? > > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:08 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > > - *Good art weathers* the ages because once in so often a man of >> intelligence commands the mass to adore it. >> >> *Ezra* Pound >> >> > Can it be inferred from the following that culture (and therefore art) > cannot continue to exist without authority?: > > - Faced with the weakened authority of the Catholic Church, governmental > structures, and classical humanism, culture became increasingly > unstable, > and the locus of authority shifted from these cultural constructs to the > individual." > > http://repository.upenn.edu/**dissertations/AAI9840223/<http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9840223/> > > -- S a u l O s t r o w *Critical Voices* 21STREETPROJECTS La Table Ronde 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011 [email protected] www.21stprojects.org
