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The Necessary Art: Taking the Title Back
Today I am publishing a book about a theft at the center of Western culture, one its victims were trained to take as a compliment:The Necessary Art: Aristotle's Six Elements in the Clinic, the Courtroom, the Proof, the Blueprint, and the Republic. It runs 342 pages in paperback, it exists in a Kindle edition and a free reading edition you can download right now, and the audiobook will follow as soon as the voice is ready. Those are the facts of the launch. What follows is the case for why this book exists, because its central fact has stood in plain sight for two hundred and eighty years while the people it names were trained to take the theft as a compliment: the professions of the working world were robbed of a word, the robbery has a date and a paper trail, and the word can be taken back. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/11/the-necessary-art-taking-the-title-back/
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As I mentioned in a post I wrote a few minutes ago, Richard Wollheim's "Painting as an Art" has gripped me because it invites the reader to join the author in looking at pictures closely. His obituary mentions his own method as he applied it in galleries:
>> I evolved a way of looking at paintings which was massively time consuming and deeply rewarding. For I came to recognise that it often took the first hour or so in front of a painting for stray associations or motivated misperceptions to settle down, and it was only then, with the same amount of time or more to spend looking at it, that the picture could be relied upon to disclose itself as it was. I noticed that I became an object of suspicion to passers-by, and so did the picture that I was looking at. <<
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/05/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
Image: Richard Wollheim -- British Academy
#RichardWollheim #PaintingAsAnArt #PhilosophyOfArt #Aesthetics #ArtCriticism #Art #Philosophy
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I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".
Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.
Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.
I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:
http://www.marginalutility.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/aesthetic-dimension-_-marcuse.pdf
The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.In that same year....
#Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory
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@ArtPhotosDesk @culture-euronews
This story is so thought provoking.
i haven't responded to the question about dating an artwork because I want to think more about two questions:
- What sort of thing is a piece of conceptual art?
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-ontology-history/- How should the organization of labour in artistic production shape our understanding of contemporary art?
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-demystified-the-use-of-assistants-549284#DamienHirst #ConceptualArt #OntologyOfArt #PhilosophyOfArt #SociologyOfArt
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I''m one of what seems to be a small minority of Kpop fans in not liking aespa -- Supernova.
This experience brings me back to questions that I consider frequently:
- Do we really believe that taste is purely subjective, as is so frequently affirmed in pop culture media?
- Does it make sense to say that one can have defective taste or in some way be mistaken in one's artistic preferences?
#Kpop #PopularCulture #Aesthetics #Taste #Normativity #Aespa #Supernova #GirlGroups #PhilosophyOfArt
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I drew Baphomet, in space. Baphonaut. Along the way I wrote down my thoughts on the techniques involved and the meaning of art. Here's the whole process, from start to finish.
https://betsystreeter.com/drawing-baphomet-in-space-from-start-to-finish/
#MastoArt #FediArt #Art #Illustration #Process #PhilosophyOfArt #Baphomet #HailSatan #Astronaut #Space
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Pleased to #announce that my #book “Night Sky - Experiments with collected time and harvested light” has just been #published and is now available to buy. More on my website: https://www.wolfkettler.com/night-sky-book
#bookpublishing #photographybooks #artbooks #nightsky #BlackAndWhite #bnw #photographyart #artphotography #PhilosophyOfArt #announcement #justpublished #newbooks #artist #photography #time #light #longexposure #night #sky #fotografie #PassingOfTime #reality
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Calling all #Aesthetics and #PhilosophyOfArt researchers!
Aesthetic Investigations is seeking contributions to a special issue on the topic of #Models and #Sitters: The Art and Aesthetics of #Posing
Guest editors: Hans Maes, Aurélie Debaene and C.A. York
Submission deadline 1 August
https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/about/submissions
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Nick Cave, in an interview, with a #philosophy of #art not well
understood:> My objection is not with A.I. in general ... It is more a kind of sad,
> disappointed feeling that there are smart people out there that
> actually think the artistic act is so mundane that it can be
> replicated by a machine ... The thing about writing a good song is
> that it tells you something about yourself you didn't already know.
> That's the thing. You can't mimic that.https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/nick-cave-on-the-fragility-of-life
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Always happy about #Philpapers sending out emails with lists of recent publications.
Today, there was a little treasure in my #PhilosophyOfArt stack.
Acoustemologies in contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity
Read into it, and it is great. It should be of interest to scholars of world cultures, music, and sound, but also colleagues with interest in #Listening (#Glanville #Cybernetics) or #DeepListening
https://books.openedition.org/obp/19143?lang=en
