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You wrote: "Doesn't sexual pleasure do all these things? Is it
therefore an aesthetic pleasure?"
Well I didn't say that "Taking you out of yourself", "Repeating the
rhythms in your body", "Bringing out the truth about us" are either
satisfactory or necessary conditions for aesthetic pleasure.
I was hoping that "maybe"s I was using would clarify that I do not
claim to know what exactly creates aesthetic pleasures. Those were
just some of the reasonable theories I have heard. It might be all of
them or none of them. I will definitely let you know if I ever come
up with a "unified theory of arts". Until then, I prefer sticking to
Tag Gallagher's idea of defining aesthetics individually for each
artist.
What I can tell you for sure though, is that there is a great
pleasure I experience from time to time that I have to separate from
others, and the best naming seems to be "aesthetic pleasure".
I agree that sex is an activity that has all the components above in
some ways but that doesn't necessarily make it the same.
... And yet I think there is something like a consenus that these acts of spotting and overlooking are important and should be going on all the time. I ...
... Dunno if Peter would agree, but I vote for abolishing this distinction. Pleasure is pleasure, and high-mindedness has nothing to do with it. I liked Ten...
Jake, You wrote: "Dunno if Peter would agree, but I vote for abolishing this distinction. Pleasure is pleasure, and high-mindedness has nothing to do with it."...
Zach, You wrote: "Doesn't sexual pleasure do all these things? Is it therefore an aesthetic pleasure?" Well I didn't say that "Taking you out of yourself",...
... of ... That's cool - I was trying to push at the limits of your suggested definitions, and try to get us to see it from a different perspective. Perhaps...
... Art isn't sex (surprise) but on a basic level surely responding to art involves a libidinal investment, as Freud would say. I tried to argue a while back...
... I think Bazin's concept of realism is more complicated than that. Remember, in his article on Italian neorealism, he said, "Realism in art can only be...
... in art can only be achieved in one way - by artifice." Always keep in mind this reverse statement by Paul Valery: "Cinema is an art of making truth with...
Zach Campbell wrote ... Well, at least "for me," it doesn't involve the same degree of the perception of an, um, external form organized with an intellectual ...
once upon a long ago there were some guys who said that Frank Tashlin was a much better director to look at then, say, William Wyler and John Huston. Not for...
Ruy said he didn't like Kedma that much so I felt the need to defend my favorite film this year. Here is what I wrote on my web site on ... Amos Gitai...
just to make my point clearer: though I partially dismissed Amos Gitai in the defense of McG, I like Kedma (though I don't like the two monologues), Kadosh and...
... Well, I should in all honesty say that I think "Ten" is the greater film of the two (and "The Son" better than both of them). My major point (and one ...
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