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diff --git a/essays/art_or_brend.tex b/essays/art_or_brend.tex index 89f115a..6a2d9c1 100644 --- a/essays/art_or_brend.tex +++ b/essays/art_or_brend.tex @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ \chapter{\textsc{Art} or \textsc{Brend}?} -\begin{enumerate} +\begin{enumerate}[wide, itemsep=1em] \item Perhaps the most diseased justification the artist can give of his profession is to say that it is somehow scientific. LaMonte Young, Milton Babbitt, and Stockhausen are exponents of this sort of justification. @@ -124,18 +124,19 @@ beyond art already occurs in his life---but is totally suppressed by the general repressiveness of society. \end{enumerate} +\vfill -Note: The avant-garde artist may raise a final question. Can't art or +\textsc{Note:} The avant-garde artist may raise a final question. Can't art or entertainment compensate for its impersonality by having sheer newness as a value? Can't the very foreignness of the impersonal object be entertaining? -Doesn't this happen with Mock Risk Games, for example? The answer is +Doesn't this happen with \essaytitle{Mock Risk Games}, for example? The answer is that entertainmental newness is also subjective. What is entertainingly strange to one person is incomprehensible, annoying, or irrelevant to another. The only difference between foreignness and other entertainment values is that brend does not have more foreignness than conventional entertainment does. -As for objective newness, or the objective value of Mock Risk Games, these +As for objective newness, or the objective value of \essaytitle{Mock Risk Games}, these issues are so difficult that I have been unable to reach final conclusions about them. |