franka waaldijk visual artist

This blog is about art from a personal, often philosophical perspective. It is meant as much for me as for you (I hope!). Please allow for some inconsistency, obstinacy, ignorance, incompetence, inaccuracy, blind spots etc on my part. friendly feedback, which may be as critical as you like, is always welcome.

Showing posts with label what is art for?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what is art for?. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

what is art for? homo aestheticus by ellen dissanayake

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as an illustration to the previous post, let me quote from the wikipedia lemma on ellen dissanayake : In Homo Aestheticus (University of Was...

landscape art 3: what is art for (again)?

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as i understand visual art, it is as important to us as music, and dance. i wrote some posts earlier about dance, dance of life, tree of lif...
Monday, January 17, 2011

what is art for? 4 (art in our merchant society)

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but let's forget about the economic importance of art and art education. this importance should be evident to anyone who ... has had eno...

what is art for? 3 (art in our merchant society)

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[to continue our discussion: art and art education is important for economic development] the first reason why art and art education are eco...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

what is art for? 2 (art in our merchant society)

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[continued from previous post] so if we adopt the utilitarian viewpoint, then clearly art is for the benefit of mankind. in my not so humble...

what is art for? (art in our merchant society)

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you probably don't remember me posing that question around new year's day... and you certainly won't expect me to answer it i ho...
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