Comments on: Beauty and Necessity http://lostborders.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/beauty-and-necessity/ The Quest for Beauty, Meaning and Hope in Southern California Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ken http://lostborders.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/beauty-and-necessity/#comment-238 Ken Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:58:31 +0000 http://lostborders.wordpress.com/?p=201#comment-238 Highestform: I think your response that art is worth our time and money because it is unnecessary does get to the heart of art. The question reflects the commercial/economic orientation of our times. I think your answer deals with the question by changing the subject and it is right to do so. Art has been about many things over the history of humanity, and the least important of them has been money. In modernity I think it is especially true that we engage in and appreciate art because it is unnecessary. In modernity I think art is an expression of freedom - a declaration of freedom, perhaps, from an existence that many other voices in modernity claim is reducible to necessity and chance. Highestform:

I think your response that art is worth our time and money because it is unnecessary does get to the heart of art. The question reflects the commercial/economic orientation of our times. I think your answer deals with the question by changing the subject and it is right to do so. Art has been about many things over the history of humanity, and the least important of them has been money.

In modernity I think it is especially true that we engage in and appreciate art because it is unnecessary. In modernity I think art is an expression of freedom – a declaration of freedom, perhaps, from an existence that many other voices in modernity claim is reducible to necessity and chance.

]]> By: highestform http://lostborders.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/beauty-and-necessity/#comment-237 highestform Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:25:49 +0000 http://lostborders.wordpress.com/?p=201#comment-237 Hi there, I came across your blog the other day and I like it... I've thought about beauty and necessity too. The other day someone asked me why it was important to devote time and money to art (in jest) and I responded without thinking, "because it is unnecessary" (that may be a bit of an oversimplification). Anyhow. I enjoyed your post. Hi there,
I came across your blog the other day and I like it… I’ve thought about beauty and necessity too. The other day someone asked me why it was important to devote time and money to art (in jest) and I responded without thinking, “because it is unnecessary” (that may be a bit of an oversimplification). Anyhow. I enjoyed your post.

]]> By: Ken http://lostborders.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/beauty-and-necessity/#comment-217 Ken Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:08:15 +0000 http://lostborders.wordpress.com/?p=201#comment-217 That is a great quote and observation. Thank you. That is a great quote and observation. Thank you.

]]> By: Chris http://lostborders.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/beauty-and-necessity/#comment-216 Chris Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:15:44 +0000 http://lostborders.wordpress.com/?p=201#comment-216 "It is a pity that the view of evolution named Darwinian today does not reflect the full careful thought and wisdom of the man whose name it bears." Emerson said an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. Much truth in that, especially when one considers that the shadow is not the man. Peace to you today. “It is a pity that the view of evolution named Darwinian today does not reflect the full careful thought and wisdom of the man whose name it bears.”

Emerson said an institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. Much truth in that, especially when one considers that the shadow is not the man.

Peace to you today.

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