Hi Curt This is brilliant!
Do you have a version that generates artist statements? dave On 21 October 2010 20:04, Curt Cloninger <[email protected]> wrote: > cf: http://playdamage.org/manifest-o-matic > > >>I agree with you here - also Olson's on field poetry (forget the exact >>title). But it's the heart of absolutism that manifestos also offer that >>can be a problem. >> >>- Alan >> >>On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Edward Picot wrote: >> >>> I'm very late coming to this, because I tend to let Netbehaviour posts >>> pile up and then trawl through them a week or so at a time, but this has >>> been a very absorbing thread, especially the exchange between Alan and >>> Curt about significance in art, art-teaching, etc. >>> >>> I'd just like to say a belated word in defence of manifestos. I'm quite >>> anti-manifesto personally, in the sense that I don't personally want to >>> get involved with one, or can't think of one with which I would want to >>> get involved; but I can see that they sometimes serve their purpose. >>> Radically new art sometimes has to create the critical framework from >>> which it should be judged, and manifestos can help with this. Being a >>> literary sort of person I'm thinking of things like the Imagist >>> manifesto, George Eliot's lengthy remarks about realism in literature in >>> Scenes from Clerical Life (or was it Adam Bede?) and Wordsworth and >>> Coleridge's preface to The Lyrical Ballads, with its plea that poetry >>> should be written in "language really used by men" instead of the >>> highly-artificial diction favoured by the Augustans. Exciting ideas, and >>> ideas which helped to alter the course of our literature. >>> >>> - Edward >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >>> >>> >> >> >>== >>email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ >>webpage http://www.alansondheim.org >>music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ >>== >>_______________________________________________ >>NetBehaviour mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Art Portfolio: http://davemiller.org Art Blog: http://davemiller.org/art_blog Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/visualstories ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
