Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
Perhaps what we need is art that is suggestive but not prescriptive, unashamedly mysterious, not didactic. Indeed, this is what art is uniquely able to do—seeking in places that reason and knowledge can’t reach, beyond the sacred, beyond the descriptive and beyond the coded world of technology. Perhaps we need this role more than ever, these spaces
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The postmodern ethos, which has been so influential in the arts, encourages a playful, ironic scepticism of any absolutes or certainty, let alone any sense that history might have a meaning or direction.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
1. Conceptual Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
3. Illogical judgements lead to new experience.
4. Formal Art is essentially rational.
5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6. If the artist changes his mind midw... See more
2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
3. Illogical judgements lead to new experience.
4. Formal Art is essentially rational.
5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.
6. If the artist changes his mind midw... See more
Sol LeWitt • Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969) - Tetragrammaton
The Keatsian endeavor has never been popular, but is particularly unfashionable today. Religious fundamentalists reject it on the grounds that revelation and commitment are needed to orient oneself in the world. The amorality of a poet who is a “thoroughfare for all thoughts” risks heresy or destabilization. Tell me where you stand, where your loya... See more