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Monday, February 25, 2019

The Sartwell Illusion

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:56 pm

See Sartwell in this journal and . . .

"Read something that means something." — New Yorker  motto.

From a search for Alperin in this  journal —

http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180824-Alperin-Groups_and_Representations-1995-p61-Further_Exercises.jpg

Why PSL(2,7) is isomorphic to GL(3.2)

Monday, April 13, 2015

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?*

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:24 pm

(Continued from April 9)

*… Or a Spearhead?

Friday, November 15, 2013

Rhetorical Question

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:18 am

From a weblog post today—

"one of our great achievements as a species
is the rhetorical question. indeed, this is what
separates us from the higher animals. it is
how we make sense of our lives. our lives 
are rhetorical questions, aren't they?"

And our deaths?

Backstory:

This  journal on Oct. 25, 2013— St. Crispin's Day—
and a eulogy last night in The New York Times  by an
art-department professor, Crispin Sartwell, who is also
the author of the above remarks on rhetorical questions.

Sartwell's Times  eulogy was for an older
professor and art theorist, Arthur Danto.

Danto died on Crispin's Day.

Update:

Thursday, June 20, 2013

ART WARS: Chesterton Thursday

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:00 pm

The New York Times  philosophy column "The Stone"
last evening had an essay on art by a sarcastic anarchist,
one Crispin Sartwell

"… whole generations of art lovers have been
trained in modernist dogma, and arts institutions’
access to various forms of state or foundation
support depend on it completely. One goes to
the museum to gasp at stunning works of
incomparable, super-human genius by beings
who are infinitely more exalted and important
than the mere humans staring at their paintings.
That’s why ordinary people staring at a Picasso
(allegedly) experience a kind of transcendence
or re-articulation of their lives and world."

 Cubism Re-Articulated:

  Click image for some backstory.

(IMAGE: Walter Gropius and Froebel's Third Gift,
from a Google image search today)

Background: Cubism in this journal and
Pilate Goes to Kindergarten.

Related material: Chesterton + Thursday in this journal.

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