Insight? Philosophy from Plato up into our time has been trying to “save” art from emotions. But one has to remember: The mind is not floating in space but connected to a body. Is the process of theorization nothing but the old trick of masculinity trying to trump femininity – order to repress chaos, logic to…
Tag: art writing
on art writing
(continued) Two thoughts engaging me at the moment Good art is offering us a kind of transcendental experience we used to get from religion. Art’s primary & only demand is very simple – and at the same time extremely difficult-: you have to slow down if you are to get it. There’s something about slowing…
On art writing
Recently I have found writings on poetry to be much more relevant for visual art, than specialized visual art writing, such as reviews, catalogue texts or research papers. Writings on poetry, and especially texts on poetry written by poets, seem to grasp art more directly, even if the poet’s language are poetic -and by definition…
writing ambitiously –
If you are a student or a scholar (- or a critic), writing is what you do. It can only make sense to do it absolutely as well as you are able – James Elkins * Axel Antas © Obstructed view (Horizon), 2010
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