From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 02:57:52 MDT
On Monday, May 20, 2002 2:05 AM Samantha Atkins samantha@objectent.com
wrote:
>>> And (wording found on the aforementioned webside) .what does "This
>>> manifesto
>>> is the signal for a moral revolution of human values in the arts"
>>> supposed to mean?"
>>
>> Transvaluation of all values... Ah, Anders got it right. It's
>> Objectivist stuff -- or Objectivist influence, since I believe
Newberry
>> is not an Objectivist.
>
> Isn't that "transvaluation of all values" actually from
> Nietzsche? Close but not quite the same thing.
I was alluding to Nietzsche, of course, though some strands of the
Objectivist movement -- in fact, most strands of it -- aim at the same
thing: a fundamental change in morality -- values and virtues and how we
look at them -- to change the culture, especially to save the culture.
> Portraying the heroic or more broadly the best in humanity in
> art would generally be a wonderful thing. We don't get enough
> of that.
I agree it would be wonderful. I don't think it's everything in art,
though, but it would be better than merely being shocking or different.
I just don't think Newberry's paintings look heroic -- at least, not
what I've seen at this site. (There's always the possibility that the
works might look different in the flesh rather than online, but I don't
think it would transform them from being "aheroic" to heroic in this
case.)
Thanks for your input!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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