Re: "Having an eye in criticism is as important as having an ear in music. It means discerning the original from the derivative, the inspired from the smart, the remarkable from the common, and not looking at art in narrow, academic, or "objective" ways."
- From: "sir_haxalot" <devin.moore@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 Dec 2005 06:47:16 -0800
Well-written maybe, over the heads of most readers in terms of the
grammar and antiquated vernacular -- definitely. Schiller's letters
really each require a contemporary english analysis and summary in
order to be accessible to everybody (which I think they should be).
-D
chris wrote:
> aesthete8@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > http://villagevoice.com/art/0551,saltz,71107,13.html
>
>
> BTW, for those interested in something seriously worthwhile, try this
> link on Schiller's "On the Aesthetic Education of a Man".
>
> http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/schiller-education.html
>
> True, it's two hundred years old; but if the Village Voice simply
> reprinted a part of it every week, it could save the cost of a boring
> and rather ignorant critic while at the same time providing well
> written material of value.....
>
> CB
>
> (For our MFA students: Schiller was a very powerful, and important poet
> of the late 18th and early 19th centuries; perhaps his best known work
> is his "Ode to Joy", which Beethoven incorporated into the last
> movement of his 9th Symphony. Oh wait, I forgot my audience - that's
> the loud piece of classical music one hears on certain car and milk
> commercials....)
.
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