tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post9196004480968874874..comments2024-03-27T02:13:58.088-07:00Comments on Integral Options Cafe: Is Modern Art Running Out of ideas?william harrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13617569.post-87007256174851935892008-07-17T12:34:00.000-07:002008-07-17T12:34:00.000-07:00I think you have it backwards. Traditional Western...I think you have it backwards. Traditional Western Apollonian art is where the meaning of a work resides in the work itself. It's just like reading a sentence - it conveys a single meaning that the writer or artist intended. But post-modernism deconstructs meaning, and reverses that linear relationship where meaning proceeds from the art to viewer, and says that meaning is imposed arbitrarily by the viewer(s), so a work of art is really an empty container that people fill with their interpretations. This disconnecting of signified from the signifier destabilizes our conventional sense of meaning, which is how we order our world.<BR/><BR/>Nietzsche is kind of the proto-postmodernist, so post-modern art is really Dionysian art. The way you are doing art is Apollonian, where you reveal a hidden or unconscious meaning.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com