After the Avant-Gardes

112 Ray Scott Percival discover those standards. We can learn from the methodology of sci- ence that the existence of competing ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 113 Natural variation (the progeny of an organism are similar to but differen ...

114 Ray Scott Percival respect to people, objects and tools.^6 Charles Murray has also compiled a survey of great achievers in b ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 115 may be the best approximation to our native aesthetics. It is therefore a ...

116 Ray Scott Percival perception are insufficient to define a solution: specific assumptions about each domain are required.^11 ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 117 exhaustive and distinct specification of a set of current demands. The var ...

118 Ray Scott Percival aspects of form, standards, and themes for each art are constrained by the characteristics of the modules ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 119 as a play around the standards imposed by our visual modules. They are at ...

120 Ray Scott Percival The pairs “Understanding and Exploration” and “Immediate and Inferred” are supposed to represent classes ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 121 deep red bounded on the left side by a thin strip of yellow and on the rig ...

122 Ray Scott Percival Similarly, we have no orchestrated sequence of aromas or touches. Massage is aimed not at a disinterested ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 123 historically variable background to presentations of works in galleries, t ...

124 Ray Scott Percival active: it is spontaneously active, even down to the level of individual peripheral sensory nerves. For e ...

Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory? 125 innocence of artistic appreciation by showing it to be a universal human n ...

126 Ray Scott Percival shown hundreds of pictures of female bodies to people of many differ- ent ages, sexes and cultures and th ...

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In a New Yorker article a few years ago Peter Schjeldahl, the mag’s art critic, solemnly praised Richard Serra for the “beauty” ...

clothes. But it looks as if artistic and critical postmodernism has recog- nized the bankruptcy of its (second-hand modernist) i ...

ernism were aborted again, and we were to endure another thirty years of postmodernism. I do not believe this will happen, for t ...