the medium is massaged walls and malls trade tantrums nationalist conservatism small parts must contain more. on viewing. avoiding the laws, just to pay the in-laws riding the craft carousel keeps them failures; stuck in 1st grade art. it’s craft time: everyone get your brushes and aprons important because craft isn’t the commitment don’t explore, don’t stretch beyond craft. they let craft fill them. keeping them from certain failure beyond. An example: you must envy him — he has expensive possessions gotten on the cheap or free; ‘cause he is so clever, or has such successful admiring friends He posts on Loud forums in sales brochure english, like a clerk without a law degree. maybe a low degree Fear of not knowing becomes not doing; no mistake worse than that.
Category: A Symbol Life
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notes from the table:
MacLagan - Psychological Aesthetics the rise and fall of the aesthetic the split between inner and outer worlds and the impoverishment of psychological life from iconograph to embodiment from inarticulate to aesthetic form\ //rl inart to artic form aesthetic, beauty and soul art therapy and the therapy of art towards a new psychological aesthetics putting aesthetic and psychological qualities into words Efland - Art and Cognition the uneasy connection between art and psychology artistic development in cognitive development theories the cognitive revolution and conceptions of learning cognitive flexibility theory and learning in the arts obstacle to art learning and their assessment imagination in cognition the arts and cognition: a cognitive argument for the arts Modell - Imagination and the Meaningful Brain Uncertain steps toward a biology of meaning metaphor, memory, and unconscious imagination imagination's autonomy the corporeal imagination internality and the self directing the imagination the uniqueness of human feelings feelings and value imagining other minds mirror neurons, gestures, and the origis of metaphor experience and mind-body problem Cognition through color
Eliot Porter Wars
We draw lines; we make selections, interpret them, and write history. Drawing upon sources means we sort thru the fog of distance and lost debates. What remains is a result of who wrote, why and, in response to what. This is the distance of time; remote memories remembered to meet this day’s question.
Too often, the audience wants a story to support their own; their hero should face the same problems with outcomes the reader understands and wants. We want to think we could have done that so we explain our choices with the hero’s story. Our path is the same as theirs…
We have spent all this time, a life getting something, only to find that we didn’t get anywhere.
Eliot Porter is a standard bearer of craft .. complex craft; something taking much effort, time, intense focus of energy. Something so difficult that few doubt its value. Something like Dye Transfer. Reality being what it is, those who have taken the longest to make a dye are those who consider it the hardest way to print. In some ways, they are correct. Making a dye transfer is time consuming, requiring attention to a process with many possible alterations. The key skill is energy.
So, where does this get. What is the history? Actually, what is the question?
Groupings of people view Eliot Porter’s work differently. The craft forum or the artforum come to differing conclusions about the importance of Mr. Porter’s work. They also hold different versions of Eliot Porter’s time at the Radiation Laboratory during World War II.
These versions, simply, are:
- he was a machinist (meaning he could make precise craft items in later years)
- he was a scheduler
he was a machinist
helped develop radar
And in 1987, the fuller tale: he was a clerk who expedited (scheduled) work within the shops at the Radiation Laboratory. He did help develop radar, along with several thousand others at the Rad Lab.
We use other’s war stories to fight our wars — tell our story. But as we all know, growing up is up to us.
So, is it necessary to be a machinist, or a scheduling clerk, or a Doctor, chemist to make Dye Transfer prints?
NO. Some of my better students had to rely completely on the step by step worksheets for the ‘craft’; however, they had the harder skill: they could see what they wanted the picture to look like.
[ I am doing edits on a post on the ways of making dyes in the early years …]
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