Comments on: Bourgeois Beauty and Bourgeois Relativism http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/11/bourgeois-beauty-and-bourgeois-relativism/ Place. Limits. Liberty. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: How robots replaced amateur artists. | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/11/bourgeois-beauty-and-bourgeois-relativism/#comment-22273 How robots replaced amateur artists. | The League of Ordinary Gentlemen Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:05:55 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7061#comment-22273 [...] Aesthetic,” and the fifth and final section is on its way. Though he’s posted excerpts for discussion at FPR, the full text is at First Principles (parts one, two, three, and four). If you’re [...] [...] Aesthetic,” and the fifth and final section is on its way. Though he’s posted excerpts for discussion at FPR, the full text is at First Principles (parts one, two, three, and four). If you’re [...]

]]> By: D.W. Sabin http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/11/bourgeois-beauty-and-bourgeois-relativism/#comment-22021 D.W. Sabin Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:49:47 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7061#comment-22021 Wilson, This is a fine series .....not only does it identify the primary culprit of unhinged Enlightenment excesses: a "rebuke of enchantment", it provides a compelling slant on the art of modernism... and its "primordial shudder". Though I don't agree with Adorno's aversion to Jazz as simply a music of non-conformism...it too has that "primordial shudder" as well as no small degree of musical scholarship but the comments upon "Nature Lovers" and landscape painting as a sign of "bad conscience" are extremely illuminating. Yesterday, viewing the Hudson River Paintings @ the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, the son and I were marveling at the seeming exaggerations of landscapes,..... particularly Hudson Valley scenes and New England Mountains as grand as the Rockies.... and I could not resolve exactly why this might be the case. The landscapes themselves are wonderful enough not to make them grander than they are. Adorno's suspicions ably answer the question. What else might compel their embellishment besides a certain guilty overcompensation? After all, they were painting when it was becoming painfully clear that for all industrialism's glories, it came with a profound dark side. So too with the Man As Cancer brigades. A great series, looking forward to Part V. Wilson,
This is a fine series …..not only does it identify the primary culprit of unhinged Enlightenment excesses: a “rebuke of enchantment”, it provides a compelling slant on the art of modernism… and its “primordial shudder”.

Though I don’t agree with Adorno’s aversion to Jazz as simply a music of non-conformism…it too has that “primordial shudder” as well as no small degree of musical scholarship but the comments upon “Nature Lovers” and landscape painting as a sign of “bad conscience” are extremely illuminating. Yesterday, viewing the Hudson River Paintings @ the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, the son and I were marveling at the seeming exaggerations of landscapes,….. particularly Hudson Valley scenes and New England Mountains as grand as the Rockies…. and I could not resolve exactly why this might be the case. The landscapes themselves are wonderful enough not to make them grander than they are. Adorno’s suspicions ably answer the question. What else might compel their embellishment besides a certain guilty overcompensation? After all, they were painting when it was becoming painfully clear that for all industrialism’s glories, it came with a profound dark side. So too with the Man As Cancer brigades.

A great series, looking forward to Part V.

]]> By: D.W. Sabin http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/11/bourgeois-beauty-and-bourgeois-relativism/#comment-21970 D.W. Sabin Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:29:09 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7061#comment-21970 At this juncture, it is dinner time and La Cave de la Obstrepereppi is filled with cigar smoke to an extent that the dog is beginning to sneeze as she snores and so I can't wait to read this all later, when the air is cleared and the dog is freed from my pernicious influences. We can see you have been busy Wilson, productively so. The dog though, and dinner pulls me away.....dammit. Seems to me at first graze that some of my longstanding questions for you just might be answered at last. Patience is a damned virtue...or a virtue damned? "....to open up the flesh of everyday life and discover truth in that mortal wound". Clyfford Still painted this phrase once, and I liked it a lot. At this juncture, it is dinner time and La Cave de la Obstrepereppi is filled with cigar smoke to an extent that the dog is beginning to sneeze as she snores and so I can’t wait to read this all later, when the air is cleared and the dog is freed from my pernicious influences. We can see you have been busy Wilson, productively so. The dog though, and dinner pulls me away…..dammit. Seems to me at first graze that some of my longstanding questions for you just might be answered at last. Patience is a damned virtue…or a virtue damned?

“….to open up the flesh of everyday life and discover truth in that mortal wound”. Clyfford Still painted this phrase once, and I liked it a lot.

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