File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-02-19.172, message 211


Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:53:08 +0100 (MET)
From: jnech-AT-imaginet.fr (NECHVATAL Joseph)
Subject: Re: ...becoming...


aPs:

(huge snip)

very interesting

> ......I think that you fail to account for the
>meaning of Art. And by that I mean the way it functions.

How does it for you? For me the definition of art which I am upholding
here, and which I find requires constant reiteration as artists move
increasingly from organic materials to the use of electronic & synthetic
ones, is that given by Susanne K. Langer in her book "Feeling And Form : A
theory of art developed from Philosophy in a New Key" where (on page 40)
she plainly states, "Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human
feeling."

"The interpretation of emotional feelings and emotional understanding is
the problem of art. Art anticipates a psychic evolution and divines its
future forms." Ouspensky, P.D.. (1920) Tertium Organum (page 73)

Does this correspond to your understanding and usage of the term art?


> As opposed to a
>rarefied critique or ivory tower idealization, the construction of any
>expressive or analytical medium must articulate itself upon the systems
>of representation and the mechanisms of its delivery. More than that,
>the canon of cultural meaning in the West has allowed us to come to a
>seemingly chaotic state of multi-cultural multiplicity in which the
>emergence and tranformation of all cultures is now a part and parcel of
>the new world order.
>-aPS

I agree.
So now what?


Best regards,
Joseph Nechvatal

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