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I was wondering, as usual, about the problem that what we see as "our culture" is in fact no longer anyone's culture at all. Which I think is just as well, it's not like having a coherent culture ever did anyone any good...
So anyway, there are three related problems: looking at things that are sort of outside one's current cultural space and two: defining the edge of one's cultural space and three, considering the nature of the culturally-induced nothingness that shrouds objects beyond the edge of one's cultural space. For example, I'm pretty sure Classical Art exists out there in a new region of nothingness. What about the Renaissance? Quite or not quite?
Here's a book review (I haven't seen the book)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_200501/ai_n9468530
And a painting:
http://www.kfki.hu/~/arthp/html/p/pontormo/3/05visita.html
And another visitation:
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/master/ms/1visita.html
and another:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariotto_Albertinelli
So anyway, there are three related problems: looking at things that are sort of outside one's current cultural space and two: defining the edge of one's cultural space and three, considering the nature of the culturally-induced nothingness that shrouds objects beyond the edge of one's cultural space. For example, I'm pretty sure Classical Art exists out there in a new region of nothingness. What about the Renaissance? Quite or not quite?
Here's a book review (I haven't seen the book)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_200501/ai_n9468530
And a painting:
http://www.kfki.hu/~/arthp/html/p/pontormo/3/05visita.html
And another visitation:
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/master/ms/1visita.html
and another:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariotto_Albertinelli