art

I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

This was surely a reunion in art, it was all that poetry promised.

It was a fortunate time in which to build, for the seventeenth century was a great period in Persian art.

The natural world then, plus poetry and some kinds of art, receives from the most ordinary of Persians a great deal of attention.

And how did he feel about modern art??

Alwin Nikolais objects to art as an outpouring of personal emotion.

Then he began to speak about the tension in art between the mess and form.

Until recently, art has withstood the pressure of chaotic things.

`` How could the mess be admitted, because it appears to be the very opposite of form and therefore destructive of the very thing that art holds itself to be ''??

Would not that be the end of thinking and the end of art??

If we look at recent art we find it preoccupied with form.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

Yet, I responded, could not similar things be said about the art of the past??

Is it not characteristic of the greatest art that it confronts us with something we cannot clarify, demanding that the viewer respond to it in his own never-predictable way??

What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??

Isn't all art ambiguous??

With classical art, all is settled.

There is the unexplainable, and there art raises questions that it does not attempt to answer ''.

Unlike the heroes and flappers of the lost generation, they disdain the art of `` necking '' and `` petting ''.

Apart from the categorical imperative they derive from the metaphysics of the orgasm, the only affirmation they are capable of making is that art is their only refuge.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant -- all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself ; ;

This prohibition on love has an especially poignant relation to art ; ;

The specific analogy to the dilemma of love is the problem of the `` breakthrough '' in the realm of art.