Tom Storm

Of course but the problem is much more complex than money.

I hear you but I am not asking for anything as vulgar as amateur psychoanalysis. I'm asking if you think he is being disingenuous. You write - Sounds ...

I've heard this take on Chomsky's position before and it seems reasonable. What do you think is going on for Chomsky then? Is he being disingenuous in...

I agree with you. And then there is the matter of individual capacity. I struggle to understand the system I work in, let alone recondite philosophy. ...

It's more complex than this. I know of many people who live and die on the streets of our city of 5 million people (in Australia) who do not get any k...

Just heard the quote - of mysterianism Chomsky says, 'I'm cited as one of the culprits responsible for this strange post-modern heresy which I'll happ...

And our capacity to endure it... :wink:

Yes, he essentially says this in a couple of lectures I've seen from the 1980's. Not mysticism, but he does include himself in mysterianism in the sam...

Thanks for this. There are many people who dislike Chomsky and perhaps will not engage with this in good faith. For my money, Chomsky is likely to be ...

I find your ideas here very interesting. I wonder if Kinkade drank out of self-hatred for his debased artworks... (sorry, that was just a cheap line)....

I disagree. I have several friends who I adore who make make such art and i totally empathise with them and their projects. I still find it dull. I lo...

Many think they do but the debate is irresolvable and acrimonious. No one (even 'experts') can agree on anything so the 'rules' are elusive if they ex...

I guess there is something primal in all this that reaches into our evolutionary history. Survival is important. I have hired many security guards in ...

Why not? Decades back Carl Jung postulated that UFO and alien visitation stories were the beginnings of a new religion in the creative flux of its for...

Old Australian joke: "How do you like your meat?" "Just wipe it's arse." Sorry....

Damn right, it just reminded me of how thoughtless I am.

I think Hemingway and Mailer felt this. Something becomes art generally by agreement. Is sport art or a craft - the execution of something functional?...

I was reading the philosopher of aesthetics, Theodore Gracyk, on the functionalist understanding of art - eg - art functions to elicit an aesthetic ex...

Which thread were you meaning? There are a number featuring Collingwood. Just read some of Collingwood's Aesthetics from the SEP. Brings back memories...

What I mean is that (like anyone) artists start from a point of view. The one you mentioned sounds perfectly fine. An artist's personality or motivati...

I'll try to check it out. I have generally drawn a distinction between craft and art. Craft being useful items of daily living that often have a worki...

Editing can be a brutal process. What I would be interested in knowing is what is the aim of the book - in a couple of sentences? And have you written...

I think this is one line of thought that I can support if i understand it properly. For me the experience of audience members still needs to be parsed...

Nice work TC. These are the kinds of reviews I appreciate because there is something in it for me as a potential consumer. And you have a light, humor...

God loves you, 180, and it's a perfect world. Why can't you see that.... :scream:

I hear you. I generally hold the view that humans need to get to know things before they can appreciate them. Chilli for instance. Ditto art. Only by ...

Good, clear pellucid prose, Sam.

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I think these sorts of terms are poetic understandings and not to be taken literally.

We send people back to work 7 days after a positive test result - as long as symptoms have stopped.

For me a key question isn't merely whether the art is any good but what the consumers of that art are getting out it. Maybe mediocre art provides tran...

Even if this is correct, I can't think of a better approach or theme for an artist.

He liked to make flip and dismissive comments, so we didn't really take him seriously. But I know it's a view many people hold - perhaps the dominant ...

I don't think an interpretation of an artist's or subject's motivations tell us anything about whether the work is any good or not. :gasp: Some of my ...

That's a significant point. I agree. :up:

Argumentum ad populum. It is not enough to be loved, one must be loved by the right people (and no, that is not one of Wilde's). Yes, but this doesn't...

Not sure about that. We can and do establish communities of value which hold intersubjective agreements about matters assessed as important and key in...

People have been saying this since the 1940's. I doubt it is true. In fact it's sometimes argued that there really ought to be an important literary p...

I personally would. And when they were written, they were loved by readers before they reached academe. It could be argued that the ended up being tau...

The thing is - is Rembrandt's Night Watch a better painting than a Warhol screen-printed Marilyn? If yes or no, why? When we write about great works o...

Nothing wrong with subjectivity - that is the common man's approach to most things. Some of my best friends are subjectivists... But, if you are tryin...

I think this has merit. And I think this is what a responsible, old school critic would do. Contextualise and assess work based on a tradition. But of...

Thanks for your thoughtful response. In answer to your question - it conveys little and I don't care for it. But I am not all that keen on art as art,...

It fascinates me how often people feel the need to criticize a given work of art as being so bad it is not art, or a case of the emperor's new clothes...

Depends on what you count as self-reflection and what you count a psychological analysis. But really what is psychological analysis? There is counsell...

Agree for the most part. Let's take: If you were to find the work 'Equivalent V111' by Carl Andre (basically 120 house bricks arranged in a pattern) d...

Yes, I think we are now heading somewhere. However these terms can also be recast as pejoratives. 'Simplicity' can be 'simplistic', depending upon you...

I'll put some precision on it. I think it behoves us to start by examining our uncultured views and the mores of our time. As per Socrates - 'The unex...

Sure. It was just a throw away line - partly meant, but not deeply. I care when others have good arguments. :up: Sure, you're not wrong, but in the co...

So you are laying down some rules for what constitutes art. How did you arrive at those rules?