Posts Tagged ‘philosophy of art’
“There is no work of art without a subject,” said Ortega — and with him here I do not demur. Subject-matter isn’t the only component of art — nor is it the most complicated — but it is the most fundamental. It is the component toward which all others are geared. This is true in […]
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“There is no work of art without a subject,” said Ortega — and with him here I do not demur. Subject-matter isn’t the only component of art — nor is it the most complicated — but it is the most fundamental. It is the component toward which all others are geared. Subject is what the […]
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I once knew a girl named Poetry. Everyone called her Poe. Everyone except me. I called her Poetry. I asked Poetry one day if she knew the meaning of her name, and she said yes: “To make,” Poetry said, and Poetry was right. The word “poetry,” from the Greek poiein, means exactly that: “to create, […]
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(c)Ray Harvey 2011