According to Plato art seemed so injurious to the pursuit of truth that it should be banned from the ideal state. His translators suggest his primary concern was irrationality in art and the relationship of it to knowledge. How interesting...
A quick review on a disturbing part of New Zealand culture. The vision then forms our current national identity by its influence on society. It is partly familiar and partly conjured from that which stimulates a love for ones own...
The notion that arts main struggle is with reality is perhaps a simplified version of an adopted perception, in some respects detached from its real threat today. I believe rather then the obvious cause of a degenerating society, this ‘real...