250425: book to judge by its cover! art: think of self as artist. memoir: second book memoir of injury, coma, rehabilitation. Jung: reading him/about 250425: book to judge by its cover! art: think of self as artist. memoir: second book memoir of injury, coma, rehabilitation. Jung: reading him/about him right now, always found his use of arts, dreams, more interesting than desire, dreams of Freud......more
250423: I have never needed any arguments to do, to create, to experience, Art. this text is for those who do need the ultimate validation of: science250423: I have never needed any arguments to do, to create, to experience, Art. this text is for those who do need the ultimate validation of: science says, science proves, science is final truth. now science has its own ideologies of what this means. I have been fortunate and cursed to be some kind of artist for as long as I remember. this is like a modern elaboration of Art as Experience with less philosophy! with colour pictures! with all the suspense academic treatise can offer!
easy to read, but would you be wise to use its cases, data sets, questions and answers, as the basis for fear of missing out (on this intriguing set design etc)... frustrating book because I am artist and believe art, in all perceptions, is not combination of any or all of these necessary but not sufficient, aspects someone says here makes Art. Art is not composite. Art is not predictable. Art is difference in Kind, not Degree. Art is Quality and not Quantity. Art is Art and everything else is everything else.....more
.??? 2000s: reading this again, and decided to up the rating: i have now read Wittgif you like this review i now have website:
.??? 2000s: reading this again, and decided to up the rating: i have now read Wittgenstein: Key Concepts and Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts, so now i am more able to evaluate. more engaging, more precise, more everything i like in continental philosophy. less torturous terminology, difficult ideas in difficult prose. if wittgenstein is all about logic, if heidegger is about the question of being, merleau-ponty seems to be about perception and presence of the intertwined being of embodied consciousness, necessarily subject and object in one, in the world. i am reading these essays in order of interest, which turns out often to reflect how the editors have ordered them. i will read some bergson, then read more merleau-ponty..
250317: reading this third time. review to come......more
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