Subject: Tr: random gleanings from the treasure trove
From: georges aron (georges.aron@libertysurf.fr)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2001 - 06:06:37 GMT
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De : "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
À : <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Envoyé : mardi 31 juillet 2001 09:05
Objet : random gleanings from the treasure trove
>
> Nothing there of the emphasis on the individually subjective
> which seems to me to be inherent in 'the eye of the beholder'.
> I'm not altogether clear where that gets us - except that it tends
> away from the implications of her last sentence ('most meaning is
> in the hands of the reader ...') which I find so repulsively & smugly
> presumptuous as to drive all breath from my body.
This "eye of the beholder" means you (Cecilia, I think) trust the masses to
sentence about what is art and what is not?? In my mind, modern paintings
show that art is now what the artist decides .
Valérie
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