File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1996/96-06-16.223, message 9


Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 10:58:40 -0500 (EST)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Materialism and aesthetic pleasure


I finally read Stewart Home's "The Assault on Culture", and am pondering
some stuff in it.  In Ch. 7 he quotes Roger Taylor's examination of art,
and says: 

  Thus, rather than having universal validity, art is a process that occurs
  within bourgeois society and which leads to 'an irrational reverence
  for activities which suit bourgeois needs.'

What I am curious about (and maybe I should read Taylor) is the relationship
between this 'irrational reverence' and aesthetic pleasure.  Is aesthetic
pleasure simply a manifestation of this reverence?  Perhaps another way of
putting this is, what is "materialist treatment of art"?  Does it include
notions of form, rhythm, composition, texture?  Of aesthetic pleasure?
(I am deliberately leaving this term vague). 

-malgosia 



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