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Re: Swearing?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 03:33:25 GMT
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johnneal@STOPSPAMuswest.net
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote:
> > > 2. It must provoke emotion in some/most viewers. (it need not be a
> > > pleasant response)
> > Why not?
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> Because art has a much wider scope than that.
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> Would you say that Picasso's Guernica is not art?
Well, it's certainly a political statement about a horrible event. On that
level no, although one can marvel as to how Picasso's fracturing, cubist style
creates a mood of chaos and tension. It is arguable either way.
-John
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| (...) I think that what you're doing is creating a restricted redefinition of what art is. Historically, art has had a much broader meaning than the one you'd like to assign to it. (People even say this sarcastically: "Oh, that doesn't have to be (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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