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Roger Kimball: The End of Art (Profound Essay)
First Things ^ | July 2008 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 12/27/2008 12:54:23 PM PST by mojito

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A long, but thoughtful essay by one of our last critics with any claim to moral seriousness.
1 posted on 12/27/2008 12:54:23 PM PST by mojito
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To: mojito
Kimball's The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art is one of the funniest books I've ever read.

ML/NJ

2 posted on 12/27/2008 1:00:51 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: mojito; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
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3 posted on 12/27/2008 1:02:17 PM PST by martin_fierro (Happy Little Screams)
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To: mojito
working through it.

thx.

4 posted on 12/27/2008 1:04:03 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: ml/nj

It’s funny or you’re being facetious?


5 posted on 12/27/2008 1:04:55 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: mojito
From 45 Communist Goals:

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

6 posted on 12/27/2008 1:05:32 PM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: mojito
Depends on what is considered beauty.

Most minimalist art I consider absolutely worthless. But then there is the one that is just a simple curved black line, but you recognize that this is the minimum necessary to evoke the shape, and thought, of a woman. Just a simple black line, but beautiful in its way. Similarly, I have seen one that is just some smudges, but it is recognizable as the minimum form necessary to describe a sea shore.

I used to consider Jackson Pollock's work absolutely worthless and paid little attention to them at all. But, later studies have posited that they have a fractal nature not found in attempted duplications. I haven't really made a decision about what I think of Pollock, but it made me at least take a look and see if there is any there there.
7 posted on 12/27/2008 1:06:05 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: the invisib1e hand
It's side-splitting funny. I was laughing so hard that I was crying and had to stop reading. I really recommend this book.

ML/NJ

8 posted on 12/27/2008 1:09:24 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
I really recommend this book.

Lemme guess, you wrote it.

9 posted on 12/27/2008 1:11:34 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: Arkinsaw
Depends on what is considered beauty.

[angry, loud buzz.]
[loud, crashing gong.]
[...large hook emerging from stage left...]
[...three-second-delay utilized to cut to commercial...]

in other words, buh--freeking--osh.

11 posted on 12/27/2008 1:13:38 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: ETL

I’d prefer not to see those, moron.


12 posted on 12/27/2008 1:14:21 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: mojito

Fascinating article, indeed for an atheist like me, art is the closest thing to a religious experience. The fact that art exists is to me the strongest argument for the existence of God.

Beautiful art still exists, at least in cinema. The Kubricks, Kurosawas, Bergmans, and Tarkovskys of the world will continue to carry the fire.


13 posted on 12/27/2008 1:14:33 PM PST by zarodinu
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To: the invisib1e hand
Lemme guess, you wrote it.

I wish.

Read the reviews at Amazon and see what others thought.

ML/NJ

14 posted on 12/27/2008 1:14:47 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

I’d trust your word before theirs. I’ll keep an eye out for it.


15 posted on 12/27/2008 1:16:15 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
[angry, loud buzz.] [loud, crashing gong.] [...large hook emerging from stage left...] [...three-second-delay utilized to cut to commercial...]

in other words, buh--freeking--osh.


I don't consider your response to be artistic.
16 posted on 12/27/2008 1:16:20 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw
I don't consider your response to be artistic.

it's totally artistic. didn't you read the article?

17 posted on 12/27/2008 1:17:40 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
it's totally artistic. didn't you read the article?

I did. But I just don't see the beauty in it.
18 posted on 12/27/2008 1:18:37 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw
Most minimalist art I consider absolutely worthless.

In the summer of 2007, my wife & I visited the art museum in Minneapolis. In the modern art section was a 'painting' I thought for an instant was a joke. It was a blank canvas. And it was a genuine display. Some people just put too much credence in the ethereal nature of art.

19 posted on 12/27/2008 1:20:40 PM PST by tbpiper
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In the summer of 2007, my wife & I visited the art museum in Minneapolis. In the modern art section was a 'painting' I thought for an instant was a joke. It was a blank canvas. And it was a genuine display. Some people just put too much credence in the ethereal nature of art.

That is indeed worthless.
20 posted on 12/27/2008 1:27:51 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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