Re: lexicon

In a message dated 2003:06:01 11:27:16 AM, the esteemed Sally Caves writes:

> [ . . . ] Now there is elegant and vulgar art--degrees of
>discipline not easily mastered by the amateur
    It is not so black and white of course. Some "amateur" art has just much
if not more elegance and/or discipline than so-call "professional" or "fine"
art. Several cases in point: folk art; children's art; art created by the
insane... _art brut_... and, stretching a tiny wee bit, the art of sentient animals
(hey there's some really fantastic Jackson-Pollock-like paintings done by -
IIRC - one of the San Diego Zoo chimpanzees that are waaaaay cheaper than any
Pollock and more colourful in a cheery way).

> I won't deny that--but on almost every level, our lives are enriched by
some form >of art... our defense against "wilderness."

    "Our"? Who is "we" in this case? Perhaps "defense against wilderness" is
one of Western Civilisation's many chthonic preoccupations.
    Nowadays it seems more like "defense against monotony" vs. "defense
against the Other".

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    "The most beautiful order is a heap of sweepings piled up at random."
                            - Heraclitus, Greece, 5th Century BCE

    Ars imitatur Naturam in sua operatione.
    [Latin > "Art is the imitation of Nature in her manner of operation."]

    " jinsei to iu mono wa, kichou na geijyutsu to ieru deshou "
    [Japanese > "one can probably say that 'life' is a precious artform"]
    in more radical, paracultural terms: "the (R)Evolution of the Everyday"

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real life, like love, dazzling at every moment." - Paul Eluard

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