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Re: "Whether viewed as a language of the emotions, the metaphysical, the irrational, or of the unconscious, the conviction of mu
Cheerskep
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"Does the commodification of art compromise its integrity?"
joseph berg
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Aesthetic stasis
joseph berg
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"Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting" (scheduled to be published next month)
joseph berg
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"The consumer is really worshipping the money that he himself has paid for the ticket to the Toscanini concert. He has literally 'made' the success which he reifies and accepts as an objective criterion, without recognizing himeself in it. But he has
joseph berg
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"...What interests people today has less and less to do with authenticity and more and more to do with experience or being part of an in-crowd."
joseph berg
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"Whether viewed as a language of the emotions, the metaphysical, the irrational, or of the unconscious, the conviction of music’s ability to convey meaning, rather than to imitate or represent an external phenomenon as was generally accepted during t
joseph berg
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"But without formal models and codified methods, how can we design and evaluate for a phenomenon we aren't sure can be adequately captured?"
joseph berg
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Sorry for the recent 2 messes
joseph berg
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"What gave me the right to discern “quality” in art, thereby implying that some objects—and by implication, some people—were “better” than others?"
joseph berg
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Cheerskep
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Re: Aesthetics as a technique of knowing
joseph berg
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Re: Experience has two things to teach; the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much. (Eugene Delacroix)
Cheerskep
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Re: "Specify clear artistic criteria based on standards of excellence."
Cheerskep
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Experience has two things to teach; the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much. (Eugene Delacroix)
joseph berg
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"The aesthetic domain and the work of art seem to offer a plane on which a certain equilibrium can be achieved in the face of a modernized reality which is always already in a state of disruptive disequilibrium. Societies organized economically and s
joseph berg
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"Specify clear artistic criteria based on standards of excellence."
joseph berg
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"The work of art, as I said a moment ago, becomes in the modernized context one of the moments of arrested development, of stasis or stillness, which seems temporarily at least to stay the hand of relentless and accelerating revolution."
joseph berg
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Like those reality shows, this is just another example of capitalism rewarding bad behavior
joseph berg
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"...As art, the 'work says a lot about fairytale myths surrounding...'"
joseph berg
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Re: "As Nietzsche understood it..."
joseph berg
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
joseph berg
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"...Connoisseurship imposes a kind of hierarchy of taste. The meaning of taste here is a combination of two definitions of the word: our faculty of making discerning judgements in aesthetic matters, and our sense of what is proper and socially accept
joseph berg
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"It's not about what you use, it's about how you use it."
joseph berg
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"From about the late 1970s onwards, art history as a discipline saw a reaction against not only connoisseurship, and by extension the whole question of making attributions based on visual evidence, but against the study of artworks in their own right
joseph berg
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The JEOPARDY Category is......................"The Symposium"
joseph berg
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Aesthetic Ideal
joseph berg
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"Magnificence was not just an aesthetic judgement – it was a moral virtue"
joseph berg
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Re: “I sold my first painting on eBay for $4.75, ... On eBay, you don't have to have a lot of money to own original artwork. There are bidders who will get onto the site and bid on every single painting I put up. And sometimes the result is the joy o
caldwell-brobeck
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“I sold my first painting on eBay for $4.75, ... On eBay, you don't have to have a lot of money to own original artwork. There are bidders who will get onto the site and bid on every single painting I put up. And sometimes the result is the joy of th
joseph berg
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"Revisiting Bernini, Master of Marble"
joseph berg
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Re: "...There can be no art criticism because there is no criteria from which to make criticism."
Cheerskep
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"The role of art was nobler than mere pleasure because it existed for the purpose of instruction."
joseph berg
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"...Things, commodities, objects, consumable goods are not only possessions but a kind of language. They are, like it or not, the way we communicate with each other, with ourselves, and with the world."
joseph berg
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Re: "...Things, commodities, objects, consumable goods are not only possessions but a kind of language. They are, like it or not, the way we communicate with each other, with ourselves, and with the world."
William Conger
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Re: "...Things, commodities, objects, consumable goods are not only possessions but a kind of language. They are, like it or not, the way we communicate with each other, with ourselves, and with the world."
saul ostrow
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Re: "What satisfies us so fundamentally about complexity is still the subject of speculation, largely in the academic field of aesthetics. It appears that we favor--relish might be a more descriptive, if less exact term--uncertainty or lack of predic
joseph berg
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"...There can be no art criticism because there is no criteria from which to make criticism."
joseph berg