On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Well, I think even when the whole concept of æsthetic gets considered cheesy (maybe because connoted by former, cheesy conceptions of æsthetics), then there is a covert system of æsthetics called by other names. A piece can be judged by the æsthetics of the concept itself, or the æsthetics of the social relevance, and so on (many criteria), but usually not using the æsthetic and especially not the b-word ("beauty").
Gaah, I hate it when I skip a word (or a handful). Last sentence should read:
« A piece can be judged by the æsthetics of the concept itself, or the æsthetics of the social relevance, and so on (many criteria), but usually not using the traditional notions of visual/auditive æsthetics and especially not the b-word ("beauty"). »
so if it made no sense to you, that's ok, as it made no sense to me either. SNAFU. sorry for the inconvenience.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju