Dear Al,
That's terribly important for me - the problem of getting free through
technique, through the tradition, through the skilling, the knowledge (and
how you run the risk of just becoming enslaved to it). How to keep
assembling, making machines, instead of just reporting on them. All these
being unexamined concepts of a quite romanticist type, of course - but I
think you know what I mean?
Of course sometimes the untutored artist creates something amazing. They say
Wittgenstein hardly ever read anybody else's philosophy (thought they were
all boring and dull, and didn't want to get infected). There is an element
of that in the US analytic trad.? Ironically, ha! ha! Its a "tradition".....
Flashback: Seneca would prefer you to read a few books well than many books
badly.
So its not like I'm saying "Do as you have been taught". Not at all. But its
also the case that I'm not saying "Just do it". It is easy to get enslaved
by the master. But it is just as easy to get enslaved to one's own
prejudices and limits, for as much as these artists seem to want to appear
to spring like dragon's teeth from the unengendered soil, they have already
lived some.
A Formula:
[Education = Liberation/Slavery] = Deconstruction.
:) Chris
>hate to peer in on a conversation I haven't been following, but this is a
>funny metaphor for me at least. I used to have a photographer teacher
>who hated me cuz I didn't study any photographers or photographic
>methodologies i just took (usually bad) pictures and developed them
>in weird ways (at the time I knew of Man Ray, but not Sigmar Polke
>who has truly taken the print in other directions). anyways needless
>to say this extended into other
>facets of my life also. however these days i find that knowing the
>history or tradation of an art form (at the very least) is actually
>kinda liberating. You grow out of knowledge or expand (revise) upon
>it in lieu of it imprisoning you. Although what the context that
>information
>creates does to you is a whole other matter.
>
>anyways thats my say on the matter
>ALJ
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That's terribly important for me - the problem of getting free through
technique, through the tradition, through the skilling, the knowledge (and
how you run the risk of just becoming enslaved to it). How to keep
assembling, making machines, instead of just reporting on them. All these
being unexamined concepts of a quite romanticist type, of course - but I
think you know what I mean?
Of course sometimes the untutored artist creates something amazing. They say
Wittgenstein hardly ever read anybody else's philosophy (thought they were
all boring and dull, and didn't want to get infected). There is an element
of that in the US analytic trad.? Ironically, ha! ha! Its a "tradition".....
Flashback: Seneca would prefer you to read a few books well than many books
badly.
So its not like I'm saying "Do as you have been taught". Not at all. But its
also the case that I'm not saying "Just do it". It is easy to get enslaved
by the master. But it is just as easy to get enslaved to one's own
prejudices and limits, for as much as these artists seem to want to appear
to spring like dragon's teeth from the unengendered soil, they have already
lived some.
A Formula:
[Education = Liberation/Slavery] = Deconstruction.
:) Chris
>hate to peer in on a conversation I haven't been following, but this is a
>funny metaphor for me at least. I used to have a photographer teacher
>who hated me cuz I didn't study any photographers or photographic
>methodologies i just took (usually bad) pictures and developed them
>in weird ways (at the time I knew of Man Ray, but not Sigmar Polke
>who has truly taken the print in other directions). anyways needless
>to say this extended into other
>facets of my life also. however these days i find that knowing the
>history or tradation of an art form (at the very least) is actually
>kinda liberating. You grow out of knowledge or expand (revise) upon
>it in lieu of it imprisoning you. Although what the context that
>information
>creates does to you is a whole other matter.
>
>anyways thats my say on the matter
>ALJ
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