How does one respond to this sort of teaching?  Hello?

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Chuck Kleinhans
<chuck...@northwestern.edu> wrote:
> 1.  Hutton was an educator.
>
> 2.  For most people, appreciation of “pure” art, of “extremely disciplined 
> style” is learned, not an inherent given of personality, biology, or 
> whatever.  Taste is a social construction,
>
> 3.  Educating potential viewers so they can have such art experiences is (at 
> least in part) an act of love, a social act that makes this a better world.
>
> Chuck Kleinhans
>
>
>
>> On Dec 3, 2016, at 11:03 AM, Bernard Roddy <tactilecor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Frameworkers!  I don't know who you are, but . . .  It's like the
>> letters my father writes that I never answer.  They just keep coming,
>> even as I throw them directly in the trash.  What, then, is it to
>> write someone, anyway?
>>
>> But Peter Hutton work screened at Nightingale.  And I wonder, well:
>>
>> What does this have to do with higher education?  That wasn't the
>> first thing, though.  It was, is this still acceptable?  It was funny,
>> after the show - all totally silent - I had to think of André Kertész
>> photographs.  Is this even experimental?  The girl in the seat in
>> front of me rested her head on her boyfriend's shoulder.  It was an
>> experience resembling a service of some kind.  The show was very well
>> attended.  I'm not just saying that.  And understandably so, because
>> the experience is hard to get!  It's in film, for god's sake, and it
>> couldn't possibly be otherwise - it's pure, it's committed to this
>> extremely disciplined style.  You could think, you could wait, and
>> there was never anything to distract you . .  (I'm thinking of the
>> river film and the Polish city film) . .  But then there's that what
>> does this have to do with higher education?  Can this really be part
>> of a course of study?  That's where I lose it.
>>
>> Bernie
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