Dear list, all:
At 16:18 31/07/2003 +1000, Ian S. wrote:
Not "feel positively", I meant respond to positively in an evaluative sense.
Difficult is often most challenging and therefore most rewarding.
Ian, I'm not sure what you mean by "respond positively in an evaluative
sense."?? Could you explain a bit more?
When I see this darker, unreasoning part of myself represented within an
artwork I recoil. This is a successful work, in my evaluation. On the other
hand, when I see this complex relationship with my own identity represented
in simplistic and bombastic terms, I do not respond positively to the work
and I get the sense that it does not have much to offer me.
Could you provide an example of this? I guess am just really confused and
curious about how and when this occurs to white men, since it seems to
happen to me (and I am guessing many other people who are non-white) more
often than I can count in literature, books, tv, media, and art.
-k
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