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Roger Kimball: The End of Art (Profound Essay)
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| July 2008
| Roger Kimball
Posted on 12/27/2008 12:54:23 PM PST by mojito
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To: Desdemona
See the Serra Sculpture, St. Louis, Missouri, between 10th and 11th Streets, Market and Chestnut Streets - and yes, it is an entire block. Check this out...
Park Avenue Gets a Mao
By KATE TAYLOR | September 8, 2008
The final piece of the Asia Society's exhibition "Art and China's Revolution" was installed over the weekend [Sept 2008]: a 10-foot-tall sculpture of a Mao jacket, by the artist Sui Jianguo, which will stand on a median in the middle of Park Avenue at 70th Street until mid-November.
The sculpture, called "Mao Suit," is made of corroded steel and weighs 5-and-a-half tons. It is part of a series of Mao jackets shown without the head or hands of their famous wearer that the artist, who is in his 50s, began in the late 1990s and has made in a variety of materials, from steel to resin to colored plastic, the Asia Society's museum director, Melissa Chiu, said.
http://www.nysun.com/arts/park-avenue-gets-a-mao/85310/
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12/27/2008 2:37:03 PM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: ETL
That at least has form.
Check this out: http://stlouis.missouri.org/citygov/parks/parks_div/serra.html
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12/27/2008 2:41:28 PM PST
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Desdemona
(Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue (I choose virtue. Values change too often).)
To: mojito
www.artrenewal.com
‘Nuff said!
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12/27/2008 2:48:16 PM PST
by
chesley
(A pox on both their houses. I've voted for my last RINO.)
To: mojito
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12/27/2008 2:50:17 PM PST
by
Sam Cree
(absolute reality)
To: Desdemona
Kind of looks like Maya Ying Lin's Wall.
"The Three Servicemen statue is the result of the controversy surrounding Maya Ying Lin's design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Some veterans and their political supporters felt that The Wall was "a black gash of shame" or a "giant tombstone." It was too abstract a design for others who wanted a more heroic, life-like depiction of a soldier.
To meet these concerns, it was decided that a traditional statue would be added as an integral part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The late Frederick Hart, who had won third place in the original competition, was selected to create a suitable work of representational sculpture to be added to the Memorial site. The statue was unveiled in 1984, two years after The Wall's completion.
http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?SectionID=103
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12/27/2008 3:10:22 PM PST
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ETL
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To: mojito
Most art (and most architecture) these days is a monument to the artist’s ego. Nothing else.
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12/27/2008 3:29:57 PM PST
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Lorianne
To: mojito
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12/27/2008 4:00:21 PM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: mojito
Great article - one of the BEST reads in a long time. Sheds light on the subtleties that push man farther from God, shaping and changing our society and culture for the worse.
“When human reason is made the measure of reality, beauty forfeits its ontological claim and becomes merely aestheticmerely a matter of feeling. “
Bingo.
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12/27/2008 5:27:28 PM PST
by
txzman
(Jer 23:29)
To: the invisib1e hand
I think the boys obsessed.The dead don't laugh!
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posted on
12/27/2008 5:37:33 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Many come here to merely strike poses, posture and feel superior to others.)
To: ETL
It may look like a lot of things, but it’s supposed to be the confluence of the rivers.
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12/27/2008 7:35:24 PM PST
by
Desdemona
(Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue (I choose virtue. Values change too often).)
To: woofie
Goya's The Colossus
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12/27/2008 8:10:57 PM PST
by
Buckhead
To: woofie
Goya's self-portrait
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12/27/2008 8:14:57 PM PST
by
Buckhead
To: woofie
Goya's The Third of May, 1808
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12/27/2008 8:21:42 PM PST
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Buckhead
To: mojito
This much, I think, is clear: Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself; it is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life. Bingo.
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12/27/2008 8:30:13 PM PST
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GOPJ
(GM's market value is a third of Bed, Bath and Beyond. Why is GM "too big to fail"? Steyn)
To: mojito
Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church 1859, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Rocky Mountains: Lander's Peak, Albert Bierstadt, 1863
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12/27/2008 8:59:23 PM PST
by
ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: mojito
Storm in the Rocky Mountains (Mount Rosa), Albert Bierstadt, 1886
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12/27/2008 9:11:14 PM PST
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ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: mojito
Yosemite Valley, Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830 - 1902) 1866
Sunset in the Yosemite Valley, Bierstadt, Albert, 1868
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12/27/2008 9:20:44 PM PST
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ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: ETL
Those are awesome. Did not know Bierstadt. Thanks very much.
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12/27/2008 9:38:12 PM PST
by
Buckhead
To: Buckhead
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12/27/2008 9:54:39 PM PST
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ETL
(Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
To: Buckhead
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12/27/2008 9:58:49 PM PST
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ETL
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