Congratulations on the AIER fellowship. I'm interested in anything about the Great Barrington Declaration. Smeared up one side and down the other, the signatories were the ones who got it right. I visited the Kimbell twice last month, one of the great museums anywhere, a tonic, almost too rich, reason enough for a return to D/FW.
Weber's keen sense of artistic consciousness seems like a sensitivity to art as such, as plastic formation, as opposed to an illustrated message. I expect he only cared about the message, when there was one, if the art per se was on a high-enough level. That is as it should be, but only to people into art qua art, which many would now find or treat as quaintly antiquated, if not worse. I'm glad you're refurbishing Weber's book, which certainly cannot hurt, but you know the score.
Congratulations on the AIER fellowship. I'm interested in anything about the Great Barrington Declaration. Smeared up one side and down the other, the signatories were the ones who got it right. I visited the Kimbell twice last month, one of the great museums anywhere, a tonic, almost too rich, reason enough for a return to D/FW.
Ah but can you define "marginal utility" in your own PAINT?
something something dancing about architecture
Weber's keen sense of artistic consciousness seems like a sensitivity to art as such, as plastic formation, as opposed to an illustrated message. I expect he only cared about the message, when there was one, if the art per se was on a high-enough level. That is as it should be, but only to people into art qua art, which many would now find or treat as quaintly antiquated, if not worse. I'm glad you're refurbishing Weber's book, which certainly cannot hurt, but you know the score.