See Sartwell in this journal and . . .
"Read something that means something." — New Yorker motto.
From a search for Alperin in this journal —
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Monday, February 25, 2019
Monday, April 13, 2015
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?*
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Friday, November 15, 2013
Rhetorical Question
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:
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
ART WARS: Chesterton Thursday
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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