Ways Of Seeing
Aug. 6th, 2011 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloReading John Berger's Marxist critique of the western tradition of oil painting makes me want to go out and torch the art galleries.
And then I remember an academic friend of mine (not a Marxist- but similarly in the grip of a world-view) confessing that the habit of deconstructing art works meant he couldn't enjoy them any more-and this makes me want to go out and burn down the universities instead.
And then I remember an academic friend of mine (not a Marxist- but similarly in the grip of a world-view) confessing that the habit of deconstructing art works meant he couldn't enjoy them any more-and this makes me want to go out and burn down the universities instead.
