An important morsel in the postmortem, p.139, “…rampant consumerism, media saturation, and the substitution of simulation for experience have only increased since the Summer of Love. In fact, by the mid-199os the haze of light referred to above had condensed into something much more imposing, namely the sea of digital image and sound in which we have been swimming ever since.” NFT’s are an apt outcome of this and a reflection of how far removed today’s culture is from the real and authentic.
Comfortable review to read, probably because it affirms my dispositions towards the issues it takes up. But in writing like "Reclaiming Art..." the way forward is usually projected with abstractions which the writers don't, or only sort of, transpose into real terms. At this time that's perhaps the best that can be done. Not complaining about that, because I seem alright being left on my own with the issues.
Of course. I read your review on the fly and understood it as Martel's laying out an attitude of approach, a "way." My experience is that, now, most people who might be good at art making don't know how to make, for instance, Martel's prescription, grow legs and walk around. So they wander about in a fog until they have to let it go. We're really left to our own devices with that now. A good reason for mentoring instead of instructoring/professoring.
For a creator of masterworks I would go with someone like Antonio Canova, who was certainly not minor but whose stock in trade was definitely a form of aesthetic and technical perfection.
An important morsel in the postmortem, p.139, “…rampant consumerism, media saturation, and the substitution of simulation for experience have only increased since the Summer of Love. In fact, by the mid-199os the haze of light referred to above had condensed into something much more imposing, namely the sea of digital image and sound in which we have been swimming ever since.” NFT’s are an apt outcome of this and a reflection of how far removed today’s culture is from the real and authentic.
Comfortable review to read, probably because it affirms my dispositions towards the issues it takes up. But in writing like "Reclaiming Art..." the way forward is usually projected with abstractions which the writers don't, or only sort of, transpose into real terms. At this time that's perhaps the best that can be done. Not complaining about that, because I seem alright being left on my own with the issues.
As I think you must be. It would be pretty suspicious and probably doomed if Martel suggested specific art to make.
Of course. I read your review on the fly and understood it as Martel's laying out an attitude of approach, a "way." My experience is that, now, most people who might be good at art making don't know how to make, for instance, Martel's prescription, grow legs and walk around. So they wander about in a fog until they have to let it go. We're really left to our own devices with that now. A good reason for mentoring instead of instructoring/professoring.
For a creator of masterworks I would go with someone like Antonio Canova, who was certainly not minor but whose stock in trade was definitely a form of aesthetic and technical perfection.