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At 04:54 PM 1/26/2008, Damien wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">At 02:35 PM 1/26/2008 -0800, PJ
replied to Lee:<br><br>
> > The same cannot be said for literature. It's redeeming
virtue<br>
> > is instead beauty. And if a lot of people don't happen to
like<br>
> > something, then that's all, ultimately, that there is to
it.<br>
><br>
><sigh><br>
><br>
>Not true. Great art is considered great because at some
fundamental<br>
>level, it reveals perceived truth.<br><br>
I'm chary of the word "truth" even with that cautious
"perceived" in <br>
front of it--</blockquote><br>
Yes, I agree.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">perhaps we might say that art
stimulates or occasions <br>
insight? </blockquote><br>
Certainly, of course. But the key work must be
"experience". Art gives/provides/lends, through the
senses and emotions, to the viewer, audience, etc. an experience.
Whether or not that experience is insight is secondary. The
experience can be frightening, pleasing, inviting, rewarding, disturbing,
etc. <br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">If that insight includes an
uncomfortable awareness of one's <br>
own current limitations under confrontation with the aesthetic (and <br>
sometimes ideological) challenge, so much the better.</blockquote><br>
Yes.<br><br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha</a>
<a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"> Vita-More</a>
<dd>PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium - CAiiA, situated in the
Faculty of Technology,
<dd>School of Computing, Communications and Electronics,
<dd>University of Plymouth, UK
<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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