I could never be a Formalist for I am far from pure.
If Art is dead can we rename it before the critics do?
Drew
An open discussion about your ISPO (Independent Studio Practice Objectives), reading assignments, and Thesis progress if applicable. ISPO: Each of you should post one ISPO to which you continually add throughout the semester. Reading assignments: I will post one topic per reading and you will each add your comments on the reading to that topic. Thesis progress: If you are working on the written paper for your thesis, please post chapters for discussion.
I guess it would be boring if we were all the same, painted all the same images, and in the same styles.
ReplyDeleteReading #3 “Janet’s Reading Response for Modernity Verses Postmodernity”
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure what I read, but here goes anyway. I think he is talking about culture that is different for the experts, than for the public. He goes on to say that there are three separate spheres, science, morality, and art and they are interpreted differently by each group. That only an expert in the respective field can then know how to handle them as questions of knowledge, or of morality or taste. Basically they could handle the questions about the specific area in a more knowledgable way. Why do we need them to tell us what to think? I’m lost help!
Janet’s Reading Response –Marxism and Postmodernism/the Cultural Turn
My head hurts. I will try my best to share my thoughts on this reading. I believe he is talking about this newer kind of global production and class order. He states that these formulas or models cannot be given because they are not yet finished working things through. Furthermore he states that we are in a transitional phase between two stages of capitalism, between the economics of the past, and this new global economy still being worked through. I think they are all just speculating and should just wait for it to happen first. I think modern art that does not have a historical basis in tradition is hard for them; they want to give it a name, to classify it. Why can’t they just let it be!