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authorphoebe jenkins <pjenkins@tula-health.com>2024-05-18 20:54:31 -0400
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@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ advance? Differential geometry is a deductive analysis of abstract relations
and an outstanding mathematical theory. ts the work of art such an
analysis?
-The motives behind the "scientific" justification of art are utterly sinister.
+The motives behind the \enquote{scientific} justification of art are utterly sinister.
Perhaps LaMonte Young is merely rationalizing because he wants an
academic job. But Babbitt is out to reduce music to a pedantic
-pseudo-science. And Stockhausen, with his "scientific music", intends
-nothing less than the suppression of the culture of "lower classes" and
-"ower races."
+pseudo-science. And Stockhausen, with his \enquote{scientific music}, intends
+nothing less than the suppression of the culture of \enquote{lower classes} and
+\enquote{ower races.}
It is the creative personality himself who has the most reason to object to
-the "scientific" justification of art. Again and again, the decisive step in
+the \enquote{scientific} justification of art. Again and again, the decisive step in
artistic development has come when an artist produces a work that shatters
all existing 'scientific' laws of art, and yet is more important to the
-audience than all the works that "obey" the laws.
+audience than all the works that \enquote{obey} the laws.
\item The artist or entertainer cannot exist without urging his product on other
people. In fact, after developing his product, the artist goes out and tries to
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@ the distinguishing features of art has always been that it is very difficult to
defend art without referring to people's liking or enjoying it. (Functions of
art such as making money or glorifying the social order are real enough, but
they are rarely cited in defense of art. Let us put them aside.) When one
-artist shows his latest production to another, all he can usually ask is "Do
-you like it?" Once the "scientific" justification of art is discredited, the
+artist shows his latest production to another, all he can usually ask is \enquote{Do
+you like it?} Once the \enquote{scientific} justification of art is discredited, the
artist usually has to admit: If you don't like or enjoy my product, there's no
-reason why you should "consume" it.
+reason why you should \enquote{consume} it.
There are exceptions. Art sometimes becomes the sole channel for political
dissent, the sole arena in which oppressive social relations can be
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ connection with people's liking, yet the artist expects the objects to find
their value in people's liking them. To be totally successful, the object would
have to give you an experience in which the object is as personal to you as
your valuing of it. Yet you remain aware that the object is another's
-product, separable from your liking of it. The artist tries to "be oneself" for
-other people, to "express oneself" for them.
+product, separable from your liking of it. The artist tries to \enquote{be oneself} for
+other people, to \enquote{express oneself} for them.
\item There are experiences for each person which accomplish what art and
entertainment fail to. The purpose of this essay is to make you aware of