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 >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__mailman-2Dmail5.webfaction.com_listinfo_frameworks&d=CwIGaQ&c=yHlS04HhBraes5BQ9ueu5zKhE7rtNXt_d012z2PA6ws&r=y2hybOip15_0MHKsie4eMM743nBh00sLtx4-ahFzSmg&m=JiLBS3AAMadfkJglpuKieU8d8imUaVDM21OEuoFovHA&s=rRyEkT_skAxGeL7iDIvr6Kv8yfS9v9XNUz2FXLcek3k&e= > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks