After the Avant-Gardes
essences and transcendent realities that feel to them to be constraints on their desires and limitations on their power and prid ...
The con game of avant-garde art is thus surprisingly robust. But this illusion requires very strict policing and absolute solida ...
in on their territory, and to torture and kill any member of the gang who wavers in his loyalty to it. I have heard real fear in ...
breaking of that flesh into morsels that do not have their own integrity or meaning any more, but the integrity and meaning of t ...
cism”. But the movement is not simply a return to ancient European ideas. It has learnt from the extraordinary advances in the s ...
architect, is getting major commissions. The arrival of NewKlassical, the website, directory, and nascent multimedia arts group, ...
Beauty is incomplete without moral beauty. There should be a renewal of the moral foundations of art as an instrument to civiliz ...
Even when it deals, as it often should and must, with the terri- fying, tragic, and grotesque, art should help heal the lesions ...
Sometimes the present creates the future by breaking the shack- les of the past; but sometimes the past creates the future by br ...
I Increasingly over the past few decades, as postmodern critical theories have percolated from the academy down to the general c ...
crumbles under the weight of new evidence, poets and writers can believe again in the value and meaningfulness of their art. Bef ...
Leibniz, a mathematician, similarly believed that once “words of vague and uncertain meaning” were reduced to mathematical ”fixe ...
designed so that even “the most ignorant Person at a reasonable Charge, and with little bodily Labour, may write Books in Philos ...
ory of literature. Tomashevsky wrote admiringly of how Gulliver’s descriptions of English society defamiliarized and decontextua ...
guistic units in a neat row, but “continually plan ahead, modifying the immediate movements of our speech-producing organs... to ...
class of objects—ranging from wingback to folding metal to beanbag chair—possessing some indefinable essence of “chairness.” The ...
manner of confusion. In talking of computers, for instance, we have to make various level distinctions between the computer’s ha ...
The reproducible sign so beloved of deconstructionists is a meaning- less nothing outside its human context, as a simple thought ...
that text, context, and textileall have the same root, meaning “woven thing,” the applicability of Sherrington’s metaphor become ...
which art and language evolved, it’s logical that our brains and the artis- tic forms that emerge from them partake of the same ...
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