[MD] Mountain View

[Ron Kulp]

 "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art." 
Susan Sontag

Marsha I think you would find Sontags' work interesting, I remember her
writing a piece on beauty.

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Greetings,

A while back I was trying to explain that I thought interpreting the
Social & Intellectual Levels was so confusing because we are immersed in
them.  Here is a far better description of what I was trying to explain,
but pertaining to art.

"On the other hand, all attempts to discover the essential properties of
art have been carried out through a search for common denominators
within art itself.  However,when looking for the especially large
patterns of a particular territory it is sometimes necessary to climb to
heights much greater than the mountaintops in that territory.  Thus, for
instance, if we seek to find the common denominator of Libya, Egypt,
Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey, the intuitive reply is, "Trouble."
But if this region is viewed from a height of several dozen kilometers,
it is easily seen that all these nations have a common coastline.

Similarly, it is possible that the answer to the questions, "What is the
common denominator of works of art?" is not so evident at the level of
the works themselves; instead, we can discover it more easily if we look
for it from a height that allows us to see art as a special case of a
broader pattern that includes the other areas of culture.  Too many
people are still trapped by the idea of the importance of the definition
of art, ..."
                             (Avital, 'ART versus NONART', p. 258)


The last sentence seems very relevant.

But this is just a reflection of my own confusion.

m

  


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