– looking at art from a darwinistic point of view Ellen Dissanayake says: Art is not a set of objects or compositions or paintings Art is the behavior that leads to a set of objects or compositions or paintings Art is not handed down only to a select few sensitive souls. Art, she says, is “making…
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Introversion is different from shyness. Shyness is the fear of negative judgment, while introversion is simply the preference for less stimulation. In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable “putting himself…
The Forest and The Trees
Why don’t you make a visit to Genevieve Kaplan’s The Forest and The Trees? Kaplan says: I’ve created this blog to keep an informal record of contemporary (and not so contemporary) found/altered/treated/appropriated books, paying particular attention to artists’ books, found-objects, and contemporary poetry & poetics — the focus of my critical dissertation at USC. Here is…
The Galapagos Affair
I’m doing some research on Galapagos related to a text I’m writing. My text is about deserted places & solitude. But what I discovered today was quite the opposite. It is all very entertaining. Here are some bits and pieces cut and pasted from the web. If you find this stuff interesting, you can find…
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