Transcendence
The concept of transcendence has been explored in other posts and this one traces how the concept has fared in the shift from the dominant art paradigm of modernism to post-modernism. Modernisms & Postmodernisms The […]
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A Superior Substitute for Life
Julian Barnes, one of my favourite writers, poses the question – “is art a depiction of reality, a concentration of it, a superior substitute for it, or just a beguiling irrelevance?” (excerpt from the novel, […]
Identity and Neo-Liberalism
This post continues the exploration of the philosophical currents that shape current art practices, in this case the issue of identity and Neo-Liberalism. A previous post, More on Painting, touched on the issue of identity, […]
Even more on Painting
This and other posts that discuss painting, more on painting and even more on painting, are an effort to understand how painting has become a suspect art form. How had it become assumed, among the […]
Doomed by A Culture of Change?
Richard Powers book, Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance includes an interesting section about progress and technology. Powers suggests that, as culture and its tools changed more in 30 years than in the […]
On Painting: 2D/3D
I used to claim that, “I make art because I have to” as the daily pursuit of the elusive goal of expressing ideas visually gave my life focus and direction in the same way that […]