As soon as the audience asks ‘what does it mean?’ we are dealing not with perception but perceptual blindness.
PERCEPTION, MISPERCEPTION AND PERCEPTUAL BLINDNESS
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Opinion
OF BIRDS, SHARKS AND A SLIPPERY DIP
As someone said to me last year, ‘if I can’t hang my car keys on it, why would I buy it?’
THE ART OF LIMITED CHOICES
There are those in society who claim the right to do whatever they want, whenever they want. To an extent society tolerates such behaviour but that is the point. Tolerance is set within guidelines and laws which promulgate and protect order. ‘Radical’ artists are tolerated and encouraged as a necessary basis to establishing those norms and inevitably become mainstream before they know it. Free will with constraints.
THE REBELLION IN. ART OR THE ART OF THE REBELLION
THE REBEL YELL FALLS ON DEAF EARS BUT WE STILL WANT IT NOW
WITH THE GODS ALL DEAD WE NEED NEW UTOPIAN DREAMS
Art history does have a place as a sort of religion but nowadays it is hardly ever used. Plotting a course from Monet to Abstraction and identifying the two main thrusts of the modern era in Cubism and Surrealism gets you only so far.
IT’S JUST A STEP TO THE RIGHT AND THEN A JUMP TO THE LEFT. Let’s do the time warp again or maybe not.
Concerns about democracy, liberty, equality, human rights, political pluralism, religious tolerance, and advocacy of subcultures and countercultures are all hallmarks of a fractured society