Posts by recordari
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Social standing is important, since it indicates the value given to the painter's livelyhood. Little is known of Exekias, but there is a legend that he was a slave.
Transactional value and social standing as aesthetic constructs? Sorry, I may be misinterpreting.
Having read one page, and a few other summaries of Broadman, his pompousness would probably become somewhat tiresome throughout an entire book. Strikes me as intellectual self-gratification at first glance, but then someone has to do it, I suppose.
There was a nice exhibition of prints at Lopdall House recently where Marian Maguire had used Exekias style imagery with colonial motif's. The Labour of Herakles. Quite liked it really. Is that Ok? Oh, and presumably it is art?
-
Paul wrote;
I am concerned that you think I dismissed your artefacts. I did not wish to imply that they were of lesser status, just observing that hand-made objects of functional value are given the name crafts, while the word art has been given to non-functional objects of primarily aesthetic value, at least since the 18th Century. There is nothing lacking in an object because it fulfills a practical use.
Keir wrote;
It doesn't have much to do with the question of the definition of art, beyond the obvious fact that Boardman is using 'artist' to refer to Exekias.
It seems that Boardman calls Exekias' vases art, and Exekias himself, an artist, unless I too am too thick to understand Boardman. Isn't this a slight contradiction to what was stated earlier?
-
Ok so I'm trying to read some Boardman, but don't have access to the full texts. This snippet from Exekias was interesting.
Probably the most rewarding field for study now that the master of attribution has gone is the definition of the painters as artist in the fuller sense of the word etc...
Perhaps you can explain what is meant be this in regards to Ancient Greek 'artefacts' like Exekias' vases. Of course you'll have to elaborate, as I don't have a grounding in this sort of thing.
-
The Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Miss Jean Brodie's class.
So who is Miss Jean Brodie?
-
Yet you can 'sense' that Giovanni is right and I am wrong.
Umm, slight twist of of my intentions there, as usual. I sense Giovanni gets that he may be right or wrong, or that there is more to know, or that might be known through discussion, whereas your tone indicates you are right, period. All power to the pursuit of truth, but not to absolutism.
Anyway, carry on, I've got better things to do.
-
Hey hey, my my, Rock 'n' Roll will never die. I am offering you these articles because they are important. Perhaps you might read them.
It's not the debate, it's how we're debating. No one, that I'm aware of, elected you, or Giovanni for that matter, but I sense he gets this, the authority on aesthetic philosophy and what papers are or are not relevant to the discussion.
If you're starting premiss is 'I am right, and you're all idiots' then what's the bloody point? I could also do the 'my dick is bigger' thing, although from experience in the world of art appreciation, not academia, but you would dismiss my views, as you did Sacha's, as irrelevant and try your tiresome belittling take downs.
So maybe you feel we're ganging up on you again? Well, having been here before on another thread, is it that we haven't yet come to appreciate your true genius and our own failings, or that we are still hoping you can arrive at a point of discussion that doesn't resort to this kind of yawn fest?
I'm privileged to have discussed architecture, art and philosophy with some who I consider true 'authorities' on this. One has written books on Wittgenstein and the other lectured for years on Medieval European architecture, among other things. The common factor in both cases could be summed up in one word; humility. They would never have dreamed of trying to definitively define 'art'.
-
-
-
Bjork sums up the dangers of non-contextual imagery in the last part of this informative video on how a TV works.
She says 'You shouldn't let poets lie to you.'
-
Bjork lingered enigmatically in the kitchen, devouring a large chocolate cake.
Was it a birthday, and were they SMOKING cigars?